Today’s article on China-Africa cooperation provides a great example of what we can learn about global perspectives from raeding the Chinese newspapers available online. It’s fantastic to have all this at our fingertips (of course, the Chinese have to read our newspapers in English, which puts the U.S.A. at a disadvantage in this media effort):

“In the final analysis, the fundamental reasons for western countries deliberately playing up the ‘China threat theory’ is because they are afraid that the enhancement of China-Africa relations will challenge western countries’ interests in Africa. They are even more worried that the consensus of China and African countries on value concepts may challenge the existing international political and economic order.”

I know that President Bush doesn’t read any newspapers, but if he did I would propose that he add the People’s Daily to his professional reading pile. And now that I think about it, I should send him a copy of Guanxi: The China Letter.