China and Africa: Things fall apart

“Love has no ending. I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet. And the river jumps over the mountain.” In 1937, when the English poet W.H. Auden wrote these lines in As I Walked Out One Evening, he probably thought the possibility of China and Africa ever meeting was so remote that it presented to him a good metric to describe undying love. Auden, who died in 1973, didn’t live to see China and Africa meet economically and politically.

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