Conference
Mark your calendars now!
The Center for China-US Cooperation will hold an International Symposium focused on "China in Africa" on February 1, 2013.
The conference will be co-hosted by the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, The Minerva Institute at U.S. Air Force Academy, and The Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta
Tentative conference topics include:
- China in Africa: A Predator or a Partner?
- African Perceptions of China
- Chinese Assistance, Motivations, and Non-Interference Policy in Africa
- Chinese Inc. in Africa: Problems and Prospects
Our dinner speaker will be Ambassador David Shinn, who served for 37 years in the U.S. Foreign Service with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan and as US ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. He is the co-author of China and Africa: A Century of Engagement published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012.
Speakers include:
- Sven Grimm, Director, Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Fei-Ling Wang, Minerva Chair at U.S. Air Force Academy and Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- Yawei Liu, Director, China Program, The Carter Center, Emory University
- Ian Taylor, University of St. Andrews
- Jianwei Wang, University of Macao
- Barry Sautman and Hairong Yan, Hong Kong University of Technology
Additional conference details will be posted as they become available.
