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This chapter investigates how Chinese support for its overseas commercial and citizens’ interests has influenced its policies and their implementation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The spread of Chinese commercial interests in DRC, especially prevalent in the mining and forestry sectors, has brought about rising concern on the part officials in Beijing as to their safety and that of Chinese citizens, which has laid the basis for new approaches to managing security in that country.
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Interviews with local Chinese residents: (1) 19 September, Lubumbashi, DRC. (2) 25 September 2011, Kolwezi, DRC. (3) 17 September, Kinshasa, DRC. (4) 4 November, Likasi, DRC. 5. 8 December 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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(1) 20 September 2011, Lubumbashi, DRC. (2) 18 October 2011, Kinshasa, DRC. (3) 15 March 2012, Washington, DC, USA.
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(1). Interview on 6 October 2011, Lubumbashi. (2) Interview on 19 October 2011, Kinshasa.
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(1) 8 June 2011. Nanjing, China. (2) 26 October 2011. Kinshasa, DRC.
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Field studies and interviews on from 25 to 29 September 2011 in Kolwezi, the DRC, on from 6 to 10 October 2011 in Lubumbashi, and on 3 November 2011 in Likasi.
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19 October 2011. Kinshasa, DRC.
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(1) 5 October 2011. Johannesburg, South Africa. (2) 15 March 2012, Washington, DC, USA.
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Interview with Chinese businessman, on 21 October 2011, Kinshasa.
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Duanyong, W., Pei, Z. (2018). Security Risks facing Chinese Actors in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In: Alden, C., Alao, A., Chun, Z., Barber, L. (eds) China and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52893-9_13
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