Policy Brief

China: Good or Evil in Africa?

| June 11, 2007

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China is transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to pay closer attention than they are, and with Africans craft bold new policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries. Click here to read the full text, which discusses China’s emerging controversial role in Africa as investor, trader, buyer, and aid donor.

For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Robert I. Rotberg. “China: Good or Evil in Africa?.” Policy Brief, June 11, 2007.

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