26 min

China and the World: Africa as China’s Policy Test Bed, with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala State of Asia

    • News Commentary

China has responded to the call for investments in Africa like no other country. Since the end of the 1990s, China’s increasing financial and economic engagement in Africa has led to critical debates whether China can offer a good alternative to Western aid and charity. Its relationships with African countries has also become ever more political.Your host: Nico Luchsinger, Co-Executive Director, Asia Society SwitzerlandModerator: Aleksandra Gadzala, Head of Research at The Singularity G...

China has responded to the call for investments in Africa like no other country. Since the end of the 1990s, China’s increasing financial and economic engagement in Africa has led to critical debates whether China can offer a good alternative to Western aid and charity. Its relationships with African countries has also become ever more political.Your host: Nico Luchsinger, Co-Executive Director, Asia Society SwitzerlandModerator: Aleksandra Gadzala, Head of Research at The Singularity G...

26 min