China's Expanding Global Influence
Foreign Policy Goals, Practices, and Tools
Mauro De Lorenzo | AEI Online
March 18, 2008
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Madam Vice Chairman, Commissioner Blumenthal, thank you for the opportunity to testify before the U.S.-China Commission today about the intersection of China's trade, aid, and political relationships with Africa.

Over the past few years, China's growing footprint in Africa has become the most potent symbol of its expanding global influence. But the China-Africa topic is no longer new. The first synthesis articles from 2004, by Stéphanie Giry and Howard W. French, identified some of the key themes that have remained central to the China-Africa discussion: China's insatiable hunger for African natural resources, its disinterest in human rights and democracy, the first stirrings of African discontent about Chinese business practices, and the effects of China's unconditional aid and loan programs on weak states. . . .

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Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow at AEI.

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Mauro
De Lorenzo
  • Mauro De Lorenzo studies private sector-based approaches to development in post-conflict and post-Socialist countries, focusing on reforms that have made some developing countries attractive to foreign and domestic investment. He also researches Chinese investment and political influence outside the Pacific region, particularly in Africa; the design of policies that promote democratic accountability in aid-receiving countries; and refugee and humanitarian policy.
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