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Discussing Africa investment - Washington

From left: David Shinn, former US ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso and professorial lecturer at George Washington University; John Paden, professor of international studies at George Mason University; and Stephen O’Connell, former chief economist of the US Agency for International Development and professor of economics at Swarthmore College, chat before speaking at a panel discussion held by the Confucius Institute US Center on Monday in Washington. The panel focused on the actions that China and the US have taken in Africa in relation to investment, technology, public diplomacy and education. YUAN YUAN / FOR CHINA DAILY