Li Anshan

On April 23, 2012, an article written by Mohamed Keita was forwarded to a Google email group called 'Chinese-in-Africa, Africans-in-China,' of which I am a member.

My name is LI Anshan and I am a professor of history at the Center for African Studies, School of International Studies at Peking University. I have visited the US and UK several times and exchanged ideas frequently with colleagues of both countries.

Recently, there has been an increasing call from the West for a so-called ‘trilateral cooperation’, e.g., West–China–Africa cooperation.

'China’s rise' is becoming an event, a phenomenon, a topic and a theme, while China’s engagement in Africa has also aroused a lot of interest, even tension, in international academia and politics.