CGSP Podcasts
Weekly discussions with key thought leaders about China’s engagement in Africa and the Global South.
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The Coming Sino-African Revolution
In this edition of the “China in Africa” podcast, Johannesburg-based blogger and academic Charlie Pistorius says the debate over whether Chinese investment in Africa is either good or bad is entirely irrelevant. Instead, one should evaluate the substantive outcome of China’s policies which will invariably produce a far more nuanced perspective. In a pair of ...
U.S. vs. Chinese Approaches to Aid in Africa
The idea for this new podcast series was born from the constant frustration of talking with Western “development experts,” diplomats and aid workers in Africa. In every instance, Westerners were either strikingly ignorant of Chinese engagement there or summarily dismissed the Chinese presence in Africa as “counter productive” because China ...