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laodan discovered 18 months ago- China's African Adventure in the NYT by JAMES TRAUB
If we believe that a model of development that strengthens the hand of authoritarian leaders and does little, if anything, to empower the poor is a bad long-term strategy for Africa, then we are going to have to come up with a strategic partnership of our own. And it is not only a question of what is good for the African people. The United States has a real security interest in avoiding failed states and in blocking the spread of terrorism in East and North Africa. What's more, the United States already imports 15 percent of its oil from Africa, mostly from Angola and Nigeria; that figure is bound to rise and could even double, eventually making Africa as large a supplier of oil as the Middle East now is. China's Africa policy shows that globalization is increasingly divorced from Westernization. We have grown accustomed to the idea that Africa needs us; it is time to recognize that we, like China, need Africa. in the NYT by JAMES TRAUB
Before the railroad can be rebuilt in Kamakupa, the old, useless tracks must be wrenched from the ground.
Observe that Western awakening... The fact is that the West has had nearly two centuries of domination over Africa and the result that all can see is misery... Now come the Chinese and an economic miracle seems to take place with growth rates over the ten percent in the countries where the Chinese are the most active. The West now criticizes China for not solving the misery problem that it unleashed over the past centuries and for ignoring the tenets of its ideology: democracy, human rights... What China's "help Africa" campaign shows is that what the West preaches is simply empty talk and the future of globalization shall be traveled along the path that China is starting to pave...
- China's African Adventure in the NYT by JAMES TRAUB
