The United States' new Africa Policy is short-sighted and presumes that Africa does not know the dangers of Chinese aid and investment.
Narayani Basu
Narayani Basu is an independent author and foreign policy analyst, with a special focus on Chinese foreign policy and resource diplomacy in Africa and Antarctica. She is the author of The United States and China: Competing Discourses of Regionalism in East Asia (Cambridge, 2015). Her next book, a biography of VP Menon, will be published by Simon & Schuster India in 2019.
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