Africa is so big that most people underestimate its size, especially using Mercator projection world maps, which magnify the Northern Hemisphere several times. Africa is the equivalent of THREE continental Unites States, among other geographical juxtapositions.

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THE UNITED STATES' NEW AFRICAN STRATEGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA'S LONG-TERM COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE GREAT CONTINENT. CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 200720

By Jeff J. Brown

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Pictured above: the Great Continent of Africa is so big that most people underestimate its size, especially using Mercator projection world maps, which magnify the Northern Hemisphere several times. Africa is the equivalent of THREE continental Unites States, among other geographical juxtapositions.

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Authors Bio:

Sixteen years on the streets, living and working with the
people of China: Jeff J. Brown is
the author of 44 Days (2013) and Doctor Write Read's Treasure Trove to Great
English (2015). In 2016 Punto Press released China Rising, Capitalist Roads,
Socialist Destinations The Truth behind Asia's Enigmatic Colossus. For Badak
Merah, Jeff authored China Is Communist, Dammit! Dawn of the Red Dynasty
(2016). Jeff is a contributing editor with the Greanville Post, Dispatch from
Beijing. where he keeps a column, and is a Global Opinion Leader at 21st
Century. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing
Express. Jeff writes, interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising
Radio Sinoland, which is also available on YouTube, Stitcher Radio, iTunes,
Ivoox and RUvid. Guests have included Ramsey Clark, James Bradley, Moti
Nissani, Godfree Roberts, Hiroyuki Hamada, The Saker and many others. In China,
he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm and Capital M Literary Festivals,
the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on
Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest
lectured at Beijing Academy of Social Sciences (BASS), as well as in various
international schools and universities. He has been a guest on radio and television
programs, like Press TV, The Daily Coin, Truth Jihad, Wall St. for Main St.,
KFCF FM88.1 and Crush the Street. Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United
States, Oklahoma, much of it on a family farm, and graduated from Oklahoma
State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue
University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the
globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980
and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the
next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and
Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for
nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. Jeff is a dual national
French-American, being a member of the Communist Party of France (PCF) and the
International Workers of the World (IWW). Jeff can be reached at China Rising
Radio Sinoland, jeff at brownlanglois.com, Facebook, Twitter, Wechat
(Jeff_Brown-44_Days) and Whatsapp: +86-13823544196.