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Dr Gerald Horne: Africans See China as Counterweight to US and Europe
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
03 Dec 2019
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In contrast to US hysteria over China’s growing role in world affairs, “in Africa itself, it’s felt that there needs to be a counterweight to the North Atlantic powers, and they feel that China helps play that role – as does Russia, too,” said Dr Gerald Horne, the prolific author and professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. 

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