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China File - 09.25.14
In early May, China’s premier, Li Keqiang, made a trip to Africa that
raised a central question about China’s rise: What effect will it have
on the world’s poorer countries? As a big third-world country that has
lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in just a few decades—and has
risen so fast that it’s easily the only serious challenger to the
United States’ superpower status—China has enormous cachet, with lessons
that many countries are eager to learn. But as the trip showed, those
lessons are complex and ambiguous.
Premier Li visited four
countries and the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa. He
pledged billions of dollars in new aid, promised to share technology,
and unveiled a series of much-publicized deals, including a
nine-hundred-mile railway line in Nigeria and a research center to help
link major African capitals by rail. Li urged African leaders and
Chinese companies that China—already Africa’s largest trading
partner—should double its trade with Africa by 2020 and quadruple its
investment there.
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