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China and the World: Africa as China’s Policy Test Bed, with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala State of Asia
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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 Switzerland
Moderator: Aleksandra Gadzala, Head of Research at The Singularity Group
Speaker: Eric Olander, Co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP)
Production: Denise Staubli, Program Officer, Asia Society Switzerland
Sources:
Asia Society Switzerland webcast What is China Doing in Africa? with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala, May 7, 2020Asia Society Switzerland Gen A essay African problems can only be solved by Africans...and Chinese? by Michael Rychener-Schreiner, November 22, 2020 Book Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China, edited by Aleksandra GadzalaThe China in Africa Podcast, the China Africa Project (CAP)
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 Switzerland
Moderator: Aleksandra Gadzala, Head of Research at The Singularity Group
Speaker: Eric Olander, Co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP)
Production: Denise Staubli, Program Officer, Asia Society Switzerland
Sources:
Asia Society Switzerland webcast What is China Doing in Africa? with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala, May 7, 2020Asia Society Switzerland Gen A essay African problems can only be solved by Africans...and Chinese? by Michael Rychener-Schreiner, November 22, 2020 Book Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China, edited by Aleksandra GadzalaThe China in Africa Podcast, the China Africa Project (CAP)
26 min