A Chinese Journalist Reflects on Reporting the China-Africa Story

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on April 7, 2016

How foreign journalists report on the China-Africa story is often determined by the national origin of their news organization. While there are no doubt exceptions, the U.S. news media frequently frame China as the neo-colonial aggressor and Africa as the persistent victim of foreign agendas. The French, for their part, often simply ignore the story. And the Chinese frame Sino-African ties in almost exclusively positive terms that echo official policy positions.

‘China’s Worst Policy Mistake’?

By Nicholas D. Kristof on April 7, 2016

Perhaps no government policy anywhere in the world affected more people in a more intimate and brutal way than China’s one-child policy. In the West, there’s a tendency to approve of it as a necessary if overzealous effort to curb China’s population growth and overcome poverty. In fact, it was unnecessary and has led to a rapid aging of China’s population that may undermine the country’s economic prospects.

If Mao Had Been a Hermit

By Perry Link on April 7, 2016

At the annual meeting of BookExpo America that was held in New York last May, to which most leading U.S. publishers sent representatives, state-sponsored Chinese publishers were named “guests of honor.” Commercially speaking, this made sense. China’s book industry, with sales now reported at $8 billion annually, is the second-largest in the world.1