China on the world stage
I found this Christian Science Monitor article on my own with the help of boingboing, a mega-blog that mostly "reprints" things from other blogs.Danna Harman's article describes China's involvement in Africa, from its UN peacekeepers, to its Peace Corps-like volunteers, to its economic aid. There are also good questions about China's motives to consider.
The article offers a bit of insight into policy making among the Politburo elite.
China takes up civic work in Africa
"China is the most self-conscious rising power in history and is desperate to be seen as a benign force as well as to learn from the mistakes of the existing major powers and previous rising powers," says Andrew Small, a Brussels-based China expert at the German Marshall Fund, a public policy think tank. "It sees its modern national story as anticolonial – about surpassing the "century of humiliation" at the hands of the colonial powers – and still thinks of itself, in many ways, as a part of the developing world..."
Labels: China, globalization, policy
posted by Ken Wedding @ 6:04 AM
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There was also a recent aticle in the July issue of Vanity Fair (sorry, article not available online) about China's role in conflicts in Africa, especially Darfur.
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