China's African Challenges.

270 S. Verlagsneues Exemplar. - Inhalt: Contextualising Today's Sino-African Relations -- The evolution of the PRC's African interests -- Contemporary Sino-African relations -- Resource requirements -- The search for new markets -- Strategic considerations - the politics of developing-world alliances -- How much do China's engagements in Africa matter? -- The Great Tazara Railway Project: China's largest-ever foreign aid project -- Managing China's African Relations -- State support for Chinese business abroad -- Key party and state elements involved in China's African engagements -- Key entities involved in China's commercial engagements with Africa -- Key agents supporting China's political engagements in Africa -- Key agents supporting China's cultural engagements in Africa -- Competing interests and policy coordination -- Adapting to the Challenges of Maturing Commercial Relations -- The challenges of commerce: 'business is business' -- The Chinese state considers the commercial challenges -- Developing companies in developing countries -- Facing the challenges ahead -- Case Study: Zambia -- Adapting to the Political Challenges of Commercial Relations -- Determining the meaning of 'energy security' -- Determining the limits of sovereignty -- Managing peacekeeping and arms control -- Increasing popular engagement -- Operating multilaterally as well as bilaterally -- Assessing China's responses -- Case Study: Sudan -- Dealing with the Implications -- China's impact on international terms of engagement with Africa -- Non-African powers react to Sino-African relations -- African responses to China -- Political cooperation around commercial competition: the challenges ahead -- Engaging China on Africa -- Engaging Africa. - China s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China's oil imports, and China is Africa's second-largest single-country trading partner, as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges, not only for Africa and the West, but for China as well. This book examines these challenges, considering Africa as a testing ground, both for Chinese companies 'going global' and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control. What does China need to do to protect and develop its African engagements, against a backdrop of mounting African expectations, concerns from Western actors in Africa, and the rival presence of other emerging actors? How sustainable is the momentum that China has established in its African ventures? China's adaptations to the challenges it is facing in Africa are examined and assessed, as are the implications of these changes for China, Africa and the West. China's African engagements are certainly changing Africa, but could they also be changing China? (Verlagstext). ISBN 9780415556934

Interdisciplinary studies, Africa - Foreign economic relations - China, Africa - Foreign relations - China, China - Foreign economic relations - Africa, China - Foreign relations - Africa, Political Science, Current Events, International Relations, Politics, Trade & Tariffs