{"id":13227,"date":"2007-06-15T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T03:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/15\/the-chinese-footprint-growing-across-africa-howard-w-french\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T03:34:32","slug":"the-chinese-footprint-growing-across-africa-howard-w-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/the-chinese-footprint-growing-across-africa-howard-w-french\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Footprint Growing Across Africa &#8211; Howard W. French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHoward French reports from a flight between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Beijing:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo be sure, China will not forever be the fresh-faced and idealized suitor that many in Africa take it to be today. This is clearly a special, honeymoon-like moment. But the very appeal of China owes a great deal to disillusionment in Africa with the West, whose preachiness and shifting prescriptions, whose unreliability and penchant in the face of frustration for damning cultural explanations for Africa&#8217;s failures, free of critical self-examination, have left many Africans exasperated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/14\/africa\/letter.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard French reports from a flight between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Beijing: To be sure, China will not forever be the fresh-faced and idealized suitor that many in Africa take it to be today. This is clearly a special, honeymoon-like moment. 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