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翻译内容：China’s helpful role in the new world order
Last December, a full seven years after the last summit of EU and African leaders held in Cairo in 2000, the long postponed EU-Africa summit finally took place again in Lisbon.
Europe is Africa’s single largest trading partner, so you might imagine such get-togethers are fairly important and ought to occur frequently. But the real trigger behind this delayed meeting was China.
In November 2006, Beijing hosted a lavish Forum for China-Africa Cooperation which set pundits’ tongues wagging in the West. China is now variously portrayed either as an economic competitor in Africa, or as its oppressor.
The Beijing forum had hosted 48 heads of state from Africa and signed billions of dollars worth of deals, setting a target of $100 billion of trade with Africa by 2010 which, judging by what usually happens when the Chinese government sets a target, should be met well ahead of schedule.