{"product_id":"chinas-distinctive-links-with-africa-von-bjorn-bornemann-martin-mittelstadt","title":"China's distinctive links with Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0, Norwegian School of Management, BI (Norwegian School of Management, BI), language: English, abstract: ¿China has become the most confident and assertive commercial player in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt appears that China will over time displace Western commercial interests and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epolitical influence on the continent. But China is not the new coloniser. It is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpanding global power toward which Africa must pragmatically align itself.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Dr. Martyn J. Davies, Director, Centre for Chinese Studies).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSino-African trade sextupled from 1998 to 2005 to $1 36 bn (Schüller and Asche,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2007: 4) and on a conference in Beijing in 2006 Chinäs Premier announced the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaim to increase the trade volume to $ 100 bn in 2010 (Hui, 2006). These figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erepresent Chinäs growing engagement in Africa. But it is not quite clear if\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinäs impact on Africa is positive or not. One point of view, of which the quote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresented above is a part, is that Chinäs engagement has the potential to increase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfricäs importance in the global economy and to significantly reduce poverty on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe continent. Whereas others heavily criticize Beijing¿s approach towards the African\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountries and claim that China is nothing but a new coloniser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this study is to conduct a descriptive analysis of Chinäs impact on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrica. We therefore first describe Chinäs economic and strategic interests in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter this, we are going to present negative and positive effects of Chinäs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eengagement in Africa and try to reveal a general tendency in the nature of Chinäs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpact on Africa. Before giving some concluding remarks, we will compare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinäs approach towards development aid, the so-called Beijing Consensus, with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Washington Consensus, which can be characterized as the approach of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewestern world, because this is an increasing ideological conflict with important\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsequences for Africa (Sautman, 2007: 21).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this is a descriptive analysis rather than an empirical study, we are not going to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresent any hypothesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640129805\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640129805","offer_id":39429664407645,"sku":"9783640129805","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/170f8dfa-3647-4ad6-8164-0c58f6f060ad.jpg?v=1777611194","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/chinas-distinctive-links-with-africa-von-bjorn-bornemann-martin-mittelstadt","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}