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January 14, 2011

U.S. Missing Soft Power Opportunity in Africa

Howard French, The Atlantic

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While the United States maintains its traditional focus on Africa as basket case, China, for one, heartily embraces the continent.

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TAGGED: Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, Africa, China

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