Backgrounder posted February 22, 2006 by Peter Brookes, Ji Hye Shin
China's Influence in Africa: Implications for the United States
Amid growing concerns
about the People's Republic of China's burgeoning influence
around the globe, Beijing has now set its sights on Africa. China's
interest in Africa is not new. In the 1960s and 1970s,
Beijing's interest centered on building ideological solidarity
with other underdeveloped nations to advance Chinese-style
communism and…