By Beatrice Gachenge   
28-June-2007: Chinese products have taken over the international market and there is  a new export too: language. As nations watch the  Chinese economic growth and its penetration into Africa and other continents,  a side-story is  developing.

BY SARA SCHLEMM
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students have studied abroad, but for political reasons Chinese institutions segregate their students. A more confident China, seeking to claim its place in the education universe, has taken the first step to more fully open its universities and student bodies to foreigners, especially from Western countries. This [...]

By Rui Yang
Commensurate with China’s rise as an economic and political power has been a concurrent rise in Chinese soft power. China’s emerging status as a world leader has become an issue that urgently needs to be examined. The realm of higher education has been the focus of China’s most systematically planned soft power policy. [...]

              Education exchange between African nations and China has continued to grow in the last decade, showing no signs of a slow down. In 2005 education ministers from 17 African nations and China met in Beijing