The German newspaper Die Zeit has published an op-ed " Why are we so critical of China in Africa?" that I co-wrote. The English ...

Image credit: Michael Kirkham for The Economist The Economist has a new feature on aid from developing countries (August 13th, 2011): ...

http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/guillaume-bonn A beautifully written and moving investigative article by Alex Shoumatoff in the Au...

By Tony Busselen Brussels The debate about the cooperation agreement between Congo and China at the Brussels symposium on the 27th of May...

Chinese managers supervise a Congolese worker in the DRC. On May 27, 2011 I attended a very interesting day-long "debate" in B...

Photo credit: International Land Coalition Today here at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC, I spoke by p...

Robert Mugabe and Chinese businesspeople     credit: ZimDaily I'm disappointed that one of my favorite magazines , The Atlantic, pub...

Here are links to two new papers of mine on Chinese aid published this month: (1) Deborah Brautigam, "Chinese Development Aid in Afri...

I"ve been in Australia since last Friday, participating in the launch of China Update 2011: Rising China, Challenges and Opportunities ...

In a June 28, 2011 article with the thoughtful title: "China Supports Global Pariahs, Gets Resources and Criticism in Return," the...

I've just finished reading Erica Downs' excellent monograph: Inside China, Inc.: China Development Bank' Cross-Border Energy Dea...

Released in June 2011: an insightful new African Economic Outlook 2010 highlights a very careful study of Africa's "emerging partn...

Lisa Sodalo, a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, writes (on the basis of fieldwork!) a comment: "China in Cameroon's Construction S...

Saturday last week The UK's Daily Mail posted an interview with Bill Gates in which he mentions that he was reading The Dragon's G...

Take this with a grain of salt: Donald Trump lists The Dragon's Gift among his top 20 China books. "I've read hundreds of book...

The Economist's April 20, 2011, report on China and Africa (with the catchy subtitle "Africans are asking whether China is makin...

Development expert Owen Barder interviewed me about The Dragon's Gift in Addis Ababa for his podcast  Development Drums . He was a terr...

Road after rainstorm Road when originally completed. Here are a couple of 2009 photos of the Lusaka-Chirundu road , another problemat...

Food donations: photo credit japanfocus.org/-B-McCartan/3153 China's State Council has released its first official report on China...

Angolan Cartoon: Crumbling Hospital Last year we learned that Luanda General Hospital, built by Chinese company COVEC under China'...

This has very little to do with China and Africa -- call it New York City and Africa -- but swamped as I am with grading papers, article dea...

The Obamas with the Equatorial Guinean dictator. This morning's Washington Post had a critical op-ed on China's aid (or is it in...