Comments on: China Wakes, Cuddles Up to Africa http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/ Dispatches from somewhere far away Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-148 Chris Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:03:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-148 Thanks for the language tip, both of you. I figured it out once I knew where to look (on the main page, not in my blog's settings).<BR/><BR/>Africa thoughts to come. Thanks for the language tip, both of you. I figured it out once I knew where to look (on the main page, not in my blog’s settings).

Africa thoughts to come.

]]> By: David http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-149 David Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:59:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-149 I don't have much to add to the conversation, but I you should probably click a link that has one of these characters to change the language: 话 or æ–‡ hope that helps。 I don’t have much to add to the conversation, but I you should probably click a link that has one of these characters to change the language: 话 or æ–‡ hope that helps。

]]> By: Clement Wan http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-150 Clement Wan Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:35:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/03/14/china-wakes-cuddles-up-to-africa/#comment-150 Saw your post through China Law Blog but the same annoying thing happened to me with respect to the Chinese thing. <BR/><BR/>You can change it by going to www.blogger.com (or your dash board). At the bottom of the page are a number of links - one means language (and I have no idea which one is which) but on the english version now (I had someone who could read chinese figure it out for me) it's the fourth one in from the right (you can try them all but it's one of the links) and you can change it back to english. <BR/><BR/>With respect to your post though I question whether debt relief is something Africa desperately needs. That's been tried before with little to no effect in the 80s. With debt relief doesn't necessarily come development. Africa's leaders have much to learn (or perhaps implement since I suspect many of them already know) about good governance and basic legal concepts like property rights. <BR/><BR/>I get the sense that leaders in the US and UK are pretty much vilified no matter how they respond. On one hand, to play the game of one upsmanship means dealing with less than scrupulous leaders in Africa and turning a blind eye to those governments' policies -- good governance isn't easy and it's in large part about letting go of control. China is appealing after all because it offers a way out for them - money without what they see as "strings" of government reform measures like transparency, etc. attached. Saw your post through China Law Blog but the same annoying thing happened to me with respect to the Chinese thing.

You can change it by going to http://www.blogger.com (or your dash board). At the bottom of the page are a number of links - one means language (and I have no idea which one is which) but on the english version now (I had someone who could read chinese figure it out for me) it’s the fourth one in from the right (you can try them all but it’s one of the links) and you can change it back to english.

With respect to your post though I question whether debt relief is something Africa desperately needs. That’s been tried before with little to no effect in the 80s. With debt relief doesn’t necessarily come development. Africa’s leaders have much to learn (or perhaps implement since I suspect many of them already know) about good governance and basic legal concepts like property rights.

I get the sense that leaders in the US and UK are pretty much vilified no matter how they respond. On one hand, to play the game of one upsmanship means dealing with less than scrupulous leaders in Africa and turning a blind eye to those governments’ policies — good governance isn’t easy and it’s in large part about letting go of control. China is appealing after all because it offers a way out for them - money without what they see as “strings” of government reform measures like transparency, etc. attached.

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