China Comes to Djibouti

Foreign Affairs published on 23 April 2015 an article titled "China Comes to Djibouti" by John Lee, Hudson Institute.  He notes that Djibouti and China signed a security and defense agreement in 2014.  More recently a Chinese company purchased a large stake in  the port of Djibouti and China is financing and a Chinese company has been awarded the contract to improve the port. 

Although you must subscribe to Foreign Affairs to access the full article, you can find it on the Hudson  Institute blog site.

Research Issues on China-Africa Relations

I was invited to join a panel on 29 November 2012 at the African Studies Convention in Philadelphia on the problems of doing research on China-Africa relations. I focused on three areas: lack of good Chinese foreign direct investment figures for Africa, the paucity of information on the military relationship and confusion over the number of Chinese in Africa today.

Click here to access my remarks.