China needs to make sure that its economic co-operation brings lasting benefits to Africa’s people in the form of development and better governance. Otherwise the relationship is in danger of souring, warns René N’Guettia Kouassi.
The shifting of economic and political power eastwards means the West must wake up to the fact that promoting consumption-led growth to Asia is not a viable option when natural resources are being so rapidly exhausted. Chandran Nair outlines how Asia should abandon Western-style economic practices to achieve a sustainably prosperous future on its own terms.
Perhaps the most salient feature of the 21st Century so far has been China’s emergence as a global force. Li Zhaoxing, who was the Chinese foreign minister until 2007, sets out here to correct some of the common misapprehensions about China’s international goals and intentions.