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About the China-Africa-U.S. Trilateral Dialogue
Together with key partners from the United States, the African continent and the People’s Republic of China, the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, is participating in a series of dialogues among think tanks, academics, influential past policy-makers, and civil society on the relationships between China, the U.S. and Africa known as the “Trilateral Dialogue.”
The Trilateral Dialogue is a distinctive engagement on the growing role China is playing in Africa. Our dialogue sets itself apart from the other discussions on the same issue because we uniquely enable African participants to lead the dialogue on the changes happening in their countries, alongside the Chinese and American counterparts. Providing a platform for Africans to voice their own development priorities among those who are most engaged on the continent is a key imperative for enhancing African empowerment.
The Sullivan Foundation, in all its pursuits, is ever cognizant of its mandate to preserve and extend the legacy of Dr. Sullivan. Our commitment to leveraging the voices from the African continent to the world stage remains steadfast. For the Sullivan Foundation, empowerment will never be an afterthought.
The Trilateral Dialogue convened three times. Each meeting is hosted by the local affiliate member: the first meeting, in South Africa, August, 2006, was hosted by the Brenthurst Foundation; the second, in China, February, 2007, was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; and the third, in Washington, D.C., September, 2007, was hosted by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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