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China’s relationship with Africa has come under intense scrutiny in the last few years. Commentators have characterised the relationship in a variety of representations, from colonialism to enormously mutually beneficial partnership. China benefits from investment opportunities in growing African economies and the access to resources these countries offer. The African countries benefit from improved infrastructure with massive Chinese investments. However, many analysts feel that these countries lose much more than they gain with cheaper Chinese good flooding the markets and Chinese contractors promoting Chinese labour and equipment in these projects. This chapter examines China’s economic interventions in a few individual African countries in order to gauge the veracity of such claims. It appears that developing effective and stable policies to secure national interests is the key to mutually beneficial relationship.
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Karim, M., Kamal, R., Haroon, O. (2019). China in Africa. In: Syed, J., Ying, YH. (eds) China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14722-8_10
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