Africa in China's global strategy / / edited by Marcel Kitissou

• Pubblicazione: London, : Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.5106
• Soggetto geografico: China Foreign relations Africa; Africa Foreign relations China
• Altri autori: KitissouMarcel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acronyms""; ""African Renaissance""; ""Globalization and Fragmentation: The New Era of Africa-China Cooperation""; ""China's Leap into the Heart of the Twenty First Century""; ""Talking Points on China's Foreign Policy""; ""China's Emerging Interests in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa and the United States""; ""The U.S. Response to China's Rise in Africa: Policy and Policy Options""; ""All-weather Friends in Need and in Deed China-Africa Relations Seen from the Eyes of a Chinese Diplomat"" ; ""Chinese Investments in Africa: A Cross-cultural Management Perspective""""China's Trade Safari in Africa""; ""Bankrolling the Going Out? Strategy: China's Financing of African Aid and Investment, and Implications for Africa's Debt and development""; ""China's Corporate Engagement in Africa""; ""Growing Pains and Growing Alliances: China, Timber and Africa""; ""Chinese Drivers for African Development? The Effects of Chinese Investments in Zambia""; ""Models of Development: Finding Relevance for Africa in China's Experience of Development""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: China, in the past five years, has developed a proactive global policy and is emerging as a new global power with particular focus on developing countries in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. What is the role of Africa in China's emerging global foreign policy? In 1998, China's aid to Africa was $107 million. By 2004, it had reached $2.7 billion, 26% of its international assistance that year. In 2005, Africa-China trade reached $40 billion, 35% up from the previous year. China is interested mainly in four sectors: infrastructure projects, regional banks such as the African Development Bank, training of African professionals particularly in economic management, and institutions of higher education with the goal of establishing Chinese language programs. The human factor is also important. Chinese Diaspora is fast increasing. For example, in Zambia, it grew from 3,000 to 30,000 in ten years and, in South Africa, from practically none to 300,000. African countries constitute a new market for Chinese products. They also provide a source of raw materials. Today, the continent supplies 30% of China's import of oil and gas, Angola being the largest supplier with 522,000 barrels of oil per day to China. The last five years, Chinese oil companies spent $15 billion acquiring oil fields and local companies. The appetite for raw materials goes beyond oil and gas and China's foreign political strategy is primarily to solve its own domestic problems and protect its interests in the global arena. Will Africa be a pawn or a player in this emerging geopolitical game? Will China's deepening relations with the continent represent a new opportunity for African countries to negotiate a new partnership and skillfully use it to the best advantage of their citizens? These are some of the questions contributors to the volume have tried to answer by examining various facets of these deepening relations and underlining areas of concerns as well as the opportunities for mutually rewarding relations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Africa in China's global strategy
• ISBN: 9781909112803; 1909112801
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961503003321
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