Erik is joined by Winslow Robertson and Owakhela Kankhwende to discuss their chapter of the book From Trump to Biden and Beyond: Reimagining U.S.-China Relations, entitled "U.S. Strategy Vis-À-Vis China's Presence in the African Continent: Description and Prescription".

Winslow Robertson is a PhD student at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, where he focuses on Chinese provincial SOEs and the Belt and Road. He is also the founder of Cowries and Rice, a Sino-Africa management consultancy.

Owakhela Kankhwende is a recent graduate with a MAS in business analytics from Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business. He has been a research analyst at Pivotal Advisors, and is currently a data analyst at Insider.

Recommendations:

Owakhela:

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)
• UnLearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet (2019)

Winslow:

• From Politics to Business: How a state-led fund is investing in Africa? The case of the China-Africa Development Fund by Hangwei Li (2020)
• The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi (2021)
• The Dragon Prince series on Netflix (2018-19)

Erik:

• I Want You Back film (2022)
• Promises album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

Thanks for listening!

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