Joshua Eisenman is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a fellow in Asia studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. He received his M.A. and B.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and George Washington University, respectively. He has spoken publicly on China’s strategy toward Africa at the National Defense University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Heritage Foundation, and has published articles on the topic in Current History, the International Herald Tribune, the Straits Times, the South China Morning Post, the Asia Times, and Hong Kong’s The Standard. He has lived and traveled extensively in China and speaks Mandarin Chinese.