US anxiety preventing progress in ties

First of all, we should applaud US President Barack Obama for finally doing something encouraging and concrete for world development by hosting a US-Africa Summit amid all those entanglements and setbacks in his domestic and foreign policies.

Obama is gathering nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for an unprecedented summit, and on Tuesday he promised a $33 billion commitment to the continent inflicted with poverty and conflicts, and also labeled as a land of vim and vigor.

The summit testifies to the eagerness of the Obama administration to strengthen its belated engagement with Africa, and is a bid to catch up with China and other newly emerging country's rapid engagement with the dynamic continent.