日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Culture

Author sets the record straight

By Andrew Moody ( China Daily ) Updated: 2015-12-23 07:27:15

Author sets the record straight

Deborah Brautigam. [Photo by Mujahid Safodien/China Daily]

Deborah Brautigam has that rare distinction of being regarded as the leading expert in her field.

Over the past three decades she has devoted herself to the study of China-Africa relations.

Somewhat fortuitously for her, during this time the subject has grown from something of an academic backwater to one of major international interest with China's economic engagement with the continent growing almost exponentially.

The US academic was therefore in her element in Johannesburg recently ahead of the Second Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation when she launched her latest book, Will Africa Feed China?, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Rosebank district of the city.

Brautigam, who is director of the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University in Washington, says many still misunderstand the relationship, often seeing China as a new colonial power.

"There are still a lot of myths. I think amongst the better publications, The Economist, Financial Times and even The New York Times have got better but you still find quite a lot of fairly poor journalism," she says.

"Even academics just collect a bunch of information from the Internet and don't sift through it very well to figure out what is real and what isn't. If you can't adequately do fact checking and you don't know the difference between good and bad information it becomes very easy to write something that is full of falsehoods."

In her new book, Brautigam aims to debunk one of those falsehoods, that China's agricultural-aid projects in Africa, including various agricultural-demonstration centers, are part of a long-term master-plan to deal with China's own food deficit.

"Anyone who knows about Africa is going to find it difficult to understand how a continent that has itself to import 10 million tons of rice is going to be able to supply the whole of China," she says.

"It is a food-deficit continent that can't feed itself. The proposition looks a little dicey to me."

Brautigam says she got the idea for the book while spending a year as a visiting fellow at the International Food Policy Research Center in Washington in 2012.

"While I was there someone from the African Development Bank made the proclamation that the Chinese were the biggest land grabbers in Africa. I just knew this was not true because I had written a lot about this area," she says.

"Because such views were recycled and went unchallenged, I felt I just had to write this book."

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
 
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 毛片在线网址 | 男人视频网站 | 日韩精品一区二区三区在线 | 欧美xxxx狂喷水欧美喷水 | 国产精品免费一区二区三区在线观看 | 亚洲精品成人av久久 | 免费视频二区 | 七七88色 | 人人爱人人射 | 中文字幕在线观看不卡 | 老鸭窝毛片 | 三级视频在线播放 | 日本在线一级片 | 久久影音 | 日韩一本在线 | 欧美伊人久久 | 欧美日韩国产一级 | 欧美日韩一本 | 91精品久久久久久粉嫩 | 激情视频一区二区三区 | 一级片亚洲 | 日韩中文字幕一区 | 欧美日韩色综合 | 青青草原亚洲视频 | 538国产视频 | 日韩久久久久 | 亚洲视频免费看 | 中文字幕第一区综合 | 怡红院av在线 | 国产不卡在线观看 | 中文字幕av在线 | 色av综合网| 国产一区二区视频在线免费观看 | 99久久久成人国产精品 | 久久久91精品 | 欧美日韩一级视频 | 亚洲精品午夜国产va久久成人 | 四虎av在线播放 | 成人在线精品视频 | 天天国产视频 | wwwxxx亚洲|