Jeff Fortenberry: “To the United States, Africa is becoming a lost continent.”

China's development strategy, frankly, is this: It is predatory lending, it is resource extraction, and it is payment to authoritarian regimes.

I believe this is inconsistent with sound diplomacy. It is a projection of our own ideological divisions on the poor throughout the world.

I think it is a critical new architecture for, again, establishing trust and economic well-being with continuity, using the best of the private market system with a little bit of subsidy.

Thank you, Representative Rose, for your thoughtful comments, the importance of agricultural education across a variety of institutions.