US Strategy Regarding China's Presence in the African Continent with Winslow Robertson and Owakhela Kankhwende

06/23/22 • 49 min

Erik is joined by Winslow Robertson and Owakhela Kankhwende to discuss their chapter of the book From Trump to Biden and Beyond: Reimagining U.S.-China Relations, entitled "U.S. Strategy Vis-À-Vis China's Presence in the African Continent: Description and Prescription".
Winslow Robertson is a PhD student at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, where he focuses on Chinese provincial SOEs and the Belt and Road. He is also the founder of Cowries and Rice, a Sino-Africa management consultancy.
Owakhela Kankhwende is a recent graduate with a MAS in business analytics from Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business. He has been a research analyst at Pivotal Advisors, and is currently a data analyst at Insider.
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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)
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The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi (2021)
The Dragon Prince series on Netflix (2018-19)

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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)
UnLearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet (2019)

Winslow:

From Politics to Business: How a state-led fund is investing in Africa? The case of the China-Africa Development Fund by Hangwei Li (2020)
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi (2021)
The Dragon Prince series on Netflix (2018-19)

Erik:

I Want You Back film (2022)
Promises album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

Thanks for listening!

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The Politics of Infrastructure Maintenance and Decay w/ The Roadwork Asia Project's Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi and Zarina Urmanbetova

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Zarina

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Bish Bosch album by Scott Walker

Juliet

How Sand Mining Threatens a Way of Life in Southeast Asia. National Geographic. Photos & reporting by Sim Chi Yin, writing by Vince Beiser. March 2018.
Satellites Spy on Sand Mining in the Mekong by Alka Tripathy-Lang, Dec 2021.
The Messy Business of Sand Mining Explained. Marco Hernandez, Simon Scarr, Katie Daigle. Feb 2021.

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