China-Africa Policy of Non-interference in the 21st Century
Author: Kanelo Pitso
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 94
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China and Africa
Author: Chris Alden
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 3319528939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security challenges confronting China and the continent. It interrogates how security considerations impact upon the growing economic and social links China has developed with African states.
China-Africa Relations in the 21st Century
Author: Jennifer L. Parenti
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The intent of this research is to determine if the People's Republic of China (PRC) has the potential to affect the mission of USAFRICOM and, if so, how USAFRICOM should respond. To conduct this research, I conducted a thorough review of existing literature, including documents published by the US and PRC governments, journals and newspaper articles to create a record of China's activities in Africa since 1996. From these documents, I extrapolated China's grand strategy toward Africa and its potential impact on USAFRICOM operations. This information, combined with US national objectives, provided the basis for recommendations on how USAFRICOM should respond to the PRC's activities. The research found that over the past decade, China developed a unified strategy in Africa designed to secure vital natural resources, promote Chinese businesses and services abroad and create a foundation of political and military alliances upon which China can take a lead in world affairs. While espousing the values of state sovereignty and non-interference, China also engaged directly in African internal politics and business activities, and not always with positive results. Nonetheless, US and PRC interests in Africa are converging and China's actions often directly support US objectives. Given Chinese influence and Africa's growing strategic importance, the time has come to pursue a cooperative African agenda with the PRC to ensure Chinese activities do not run counter to US policy and to protect the interests of Africa. Based on China's recent experiences in Africa, the US should promote a cooperative approach through an existing institution, like the African Union, and focus on areas of common interest, including peacekeeping and peacekeeper training, maritime security, and military infrastructure development."--Abstract.
The End of China’s Non-Intervention Policy in Africa
Author: Obert Hodzi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-22
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3319973495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives a compelling analysis and explanation of shifts in China’s non-intervention policy in Africa. Systematically connecting the neoclassical realist theoretical logic with an empirical analysis of China’s intervention in African civil wars, the volume highlights a methodical interlink between theoretical and empirical analysis that takes into consideration the changing status of rising powers in the global system and its effect on their intervention behaviour. Based on field research and expert interviews, it provides a rigorous analysis of China’s emergent intervention behaviour in some key African conflicts in Libya, South Sudan and Mali and broadens the study of external interventions in civil wars to include the intervention behaviour of non-Western rising powers. Obert Hodzi is Visiting Researcher at the African Studies Center, Boston University, USA, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Non-interference as a Doctrine in China's Africa Policy
Author: Annette Theron
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dynamics for China's Changing Policy Towards African Union
Author: Georgina Nashipai Korinko
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9783659561740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book attempts to explore the extent of application of China's policy of non-interference. It compares the application of this policy on some selected African states and attempts to find out whether or not the adopted long term policy and visible shifts can be good for China or Africa as she experiences increased interactions with specific African states on eco-socio-political fronts. By use of qualitative design, the authors extensively relied on written material in this discourse as a way of arriving at intelligible conclusions as to whether the policy will also enhance African peace.
Focac Twelve Years Later
Author: Li Anshan
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9789171067180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve years have passed since the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), an event that marked an important milestone in China-Africa relations. The forum is a platform to promote mutually beneficial South-South cooperation between China and Africa, based on mutual respect and non-interference in the internal affairs of African countries. In its ten year existence, FOCAC has achieved in deepening China-Africa relations in the economic field. Trade, investment, infrastructure and capacity building have been comprehensively promoted. But as FOCAC prepares to enter the second decade, a number of steps must be taken by Chinese and African partners to improve the current institutional arrangement by expanding space for private sector and civil society participation in decision-making and by increasing the frequency of follow-up processes to ensure effective implementation of agreed upon targets.
Sino-African Relations in the 21st Century
Author: Christophe Iwanski
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Published: 2013
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's relations with countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have experienced a dynamic growth in the past decade. These growing ties have manifested themselves predominantly in the economic sphere but have also led to an increase in political interactions between the governments. While the former has received a lot of attention, the latter has been evolving more gradually and less visibly. This thesis analyses the political sphere between the two regions and highlights the polity, politics and policy dimension that characterises the interactions that take place on an inter-governmental level. As such it covers the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), a diplomatic framework that spans across the level of inter-governmental relations and now plays an important role. This institution has been built up in a joint effort by Chinese and African leaders in order to promote new policies that are aimed at supporting Sino-African ties. In the past years these policies have moved beyond the economic and political sphere to strengthen the social and cultural aspects within Sino-African relations. This move reflects China's desire to be viewed as a more responsible actor on the continent. The established regional and multilateral mechanisms complement Beijing's strategy of pragmatic policy-making which usually takes place on a bilateral level. Thus these settings may turn out to be a notable element guiding the future relations between China and countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
China's Role in African Integration
Author: Graeme Parsons
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina has surpassed the United States to become the largest source of development finance in Africa. China boasts a policy of non-interference in the national affairs of foreign countries, but their investment in African development requires stable political institutions to succeed. To overcome this conundrum, China is devoting significant resources to the growth of the African Union as this source of stability. I argue that China has become the primary driving force behind African integration through a strategy of top-down capacity-building and bottom-up economic integration. There is a clear gap between the ideals of South-South cooperation and the actual implementation of China's foreign direct investment; with China often failing to meet the standards they impose on themselves. However, these initiatives from China represent a major shift in development financing and the growth trajectory of Africa. China is slowly guiding the governance norms in Africa by operating on this supranational level.
Beyond European Conditionality and Chinese Non-Interference
Author: Chien-Huei Wu
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2006, China published its first White Paper on African policy. This signaled China's ambition to play a greater role in Africa, with influence based on its great volume of foreign aid to African countries and extensive trade and investment activities. The European Union (EU), traditionally a major actor through a variety of policy instruments, including preferential trade, economic partnership agreements and official development aid, has gradually realized that China is to be a competitor, if not a threat, in exercising influence in Africa. The competition for influence and conflicts of interest between the EU and China in Africa seem inevitable, not only over geopolitics, but also regarding human rights protection, environmental concerns and energy security issues. The worries of European politicians, academics and civil society center on China's appetite for African resources, its human rights violations and environmental impacts. A widespread, albeit incomplete, perception is that as a result of fundamentally different values, there is a difference in approach between the EU and China: European conditionality versus Chinese non-interference. In this context, this chapter aims to compare the approaches of the EU and China toward African development policies, and to explore the feasibility of an EU-China-Africa trilateral relationship. It starts with a survey and critique of the existent regulatory frameworks and policy documents on African development policies, with an emphasis on trade preferences, economic partnership agreements and foreign aid, and looks to highlight the differences between the European and Chinese approaches. The chapter then examines the Commission communication entitled The EU, China and Africa: Towards Trilateral Dialogue and Cooperation, and explores the potential value and challenges of such a trilateral approach. A short conclusion summarizing the main findings and arguments of this chapter will be provided at the end.
