{"id":2827,"date":"2020-11-23T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2020-11-23T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:03:05","slug":"african-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"African leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/november-22-2020-on-gps-bill-gates-on-covid-19-vaccine\/id377785090?i=1000499813277\">November 22, 2020<\/a>: On&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/storage.ireneeng.com\/?p=93698\">Fareed Zak<\/a>a<a href=\"http:\/\/storage.ireneeng.com\/?p=93698\">ria<\/a>&#8216;s GPS, the former Ambassador to the UN <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samantha_Power\">Samantha Power<\/a>&nbsp;says,&nbsp;that twenty percent of African leaders have some education experience in an American university.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/china-is-building-bridges-to-africas-future-leaders-as-us-is-closing-doors-to-them\/523376\/\">The Print<\/a>&nbsp;has it at 20% in an October article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China is building bridges to Africa\u2019s future leaders as US is closing doors to them<\/p>\n<p>More than 20% of current African leaders studied in US, including leaders of Ethiopia, Ghana &amp; Kenya. These countries are some of the closest economic &amp; security partners of US.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-23-at-10.01.35-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3138 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-23-at-10.01.35-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>More on the topic,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-popular-is-china-in-africa-new-survey-sheds-light-on-what-ordinary-people-think-149552\">The Conv<\/a>:&nbsp;How popular is China in Africa? New survey sheds light on what ordinary people think<\/li>\n<li>2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyinternational.com\/2020\/01\/20\/african-students-china-alienated\/\">Study Int&#8217;l<\/a>:&nbsp;There are more African students than ever in China. Why are they still alienated?<\/li>\n<li>2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiabyafrica.com\/point-a-to-a\/african-international-students-study-in-china\">Asia by Africa<\/a>: Why African students are choosing China over the West<\/li>\n<li>2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/420891-chinas-educational-offensive-in-african-markets\">The Hill<\/a>: China\u2019s educational offensive in African markets&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are waves of news about African students in Chinese colleges from time to time on Chinese social media. Those posts were mostly on the stipends and perks they received from China, and also on the Study Buddy program where and when the university assigned several female students to a male foreign student. The budding program is covered from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Controversy_over_study_buddies_for_international_students_in_China\">wikipedia<\/a>&nbsp;to <a href=\"https:\/\/nextshark.com\/chinese-university-study-buddies\/\">Next Shark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/aznidentity\/comments\/cdcpdq\/was_shandong_university_arranging_girlfriends_for\/\">Reddit<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinascope.org\/archives\/19250\">China Scope<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It seems the market for foreign student is pretty competitive and China is trying hard to corner it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 2020: On&nbsp;Fareed Zakaria&#8216;s GPS, the former Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power&nbsp;says,&nbsp;that twenty percent of African leaders have some education experience in an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2827\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">African leaders<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-things-chinese","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}