Professor Shirley Yu is a Senior Fellow and Director of the China-Africa Initiative at the London School of Economics, a Professor at the IE Business School and a distinguished foreign faculty Professor at the National Defence University, Pakistan.

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Will Africa be China’s economic saviour?

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