With $20 Billion Loan Pledge, China Strengthens Its Ties to African Nations
At the same time, its projects — roads, pipelines and ports — have focused on benefiting China’s extractive industries, not African people, critics say. The infrastructure is generally built with Chinese labor.
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“An accurate number of what China actually gives is difficult to come up with because Western countries have different definitions of foreign aid to China,” said Yun Sun, a foreign policy expert on China and Africa at the Stimson Center, a nonprofit research group in Washington.
For example, China can say building roads and infrastructure benefits the people, she said, but the real aim is to strengthen the legitimacy of the government and get natural resources.
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The Congressional Research Service reported that total United States foreign assistance to Africa in 2009 was $8.2 billion. Under the Obama administration, a new emphasis has been placed on health care, and more than half the $8.2 billion went to health-related programs.
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