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Hidden dragon, crouching lion : how China's advance in Africa is underestimated and Africa's potential underappreciated /

The explosive growth of China's economic interests in Africa -- bilateral trade rocketed from $1 billion in 1990 to $150 billion in 2011 -- may be the most important trend in the continent's foreign relations since the end of the Cold War. In 2010, China surpassed the United States as Afri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, David E. (David Edward)
Corporate Author: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2012]
Series:SSI monograph.
Subjects:
Investments, Chinese > Africa.
China > Foreign economic relations > Africa.
Africa > Foreign economic relations > China.
China > Commerce > Africa.
Africa > Commerce > China.
China > Economic policy.
Africa > Strategic aspects.
Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo29901
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • Pt. I. China leads the developing world in fostering economic ties to Africa. The hidden dragon : China's main interests in Africa and place in the world
  • Africa : aiding China's peaceful rise as a superpower
  • Other BRICs and the developing world also interested in Africa
  • Ten years of successful Africa-China trade : the dragon flies more swiftly than the eagle
  • China's foreign direct investment in Africa : large, but estimates differ
  • Pt. II. Major questions in the China-Africa economic relationship. Why did China choose to expand its economic ties to Africa?
  • The push with China : 1993 shift to oil importer leads to linkage of aid/trade; 2001 WTO accession leads to "going-out" policy
  • Factors in China's success in rapidly expanding economic ties with Africa
  • Are Africa's new debts to China sustainable?
  • Will Africa be able to industrialize because of or despite China?
  • China is not a monolith : impact of nonstate Chinese actors on Africa
  • Official China recognizes damage in Africa caused by poor corporate citizens
  • African civil society acts to constrain poor Chinese behavior, but muzzled Chinese civil society cannot lobby Beijing for change
  • The Chinese diaspora : latest large wave impacting Africa
  • Pt. III. China's strategic ties to Africa : oil, minerals, and agriculture. China and oil diplomacy in Africa
  • China's strategic trade in metals and minerals in Africa : implications for the United States
  • China, Africa, and agriculture : food as the next strategic asset?
  • Pt. IV. U.S. responses to China in Africa. Potential for U.S.-China cooperation in Africa : limited and constrained by Beijing
  • Conclusion : recommendations for U.S. policymakers.