Daniel Large - China and Africa

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3632-0 (hardback)

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3633-7 (paperback)

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Names: Large, Daniel, author.

Title: China and Africa : the new era / Daniel Large.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: China today series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "A concise and up-to-date guide to one of the most crucial modern geopolitical relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021006334 (print) | LCCN 2021006335 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509536320 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509536337 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509536344 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Geopolitics--China. | China--Foreign relations--Africa. | Africa--Foreign relations--China. | China--Politics and government--2002- | Africa--Politics and government--1960-

Classification: LCC DS740.5.A34 L37 2021 (print) | LCC DS740.5.A34 (ebook) | DDC 327.5106--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021006334

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To Judith and Martin

I have been intrigued by this subject since 1994–5, when I worked as an English teacher in Lishui, Zhejiang and met Ethiopian students in Nanjing, and especially since undertaking research in Kenya and Sudan from 2004, where among others I met entrepreneurs from Lishui and Zhejiang. This book relies on research in many places conducted since then; I acknowledge with great appreciation all whom I have met and learned from in the process. These include Philip Winter and John Ryle for asking ‘why China?’ in Athi River, near Nairobi, in April 2004. They also include Adekeye Adebajo, Seifudein Adem, Ana Alves, Kweku Ampiah, Ross Anthony, Tatiana Carayannis, Stephen Chan, Lucy Corkin, Richard Dowden, Neuma Grobbelaar, He Wenping, Jok Madut Jok, Mohaned Kaddam, Thomas Kellogg, Li Anshan, Liu Haifang, Roland Marchal, Emma Mawdsley, Angus McKee, Giles Mohan, Jamie Monson, Leben Moro, Sanusha Naidu, Shu Zhan, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Cobus van Staden, Julia Strauss, Jonathan Sullivan, Sun Xiaomeng, Thiik Giir Thiik, Tang Xiaoyang, Gai Thurbil, George T. Yu, Yu Ruichuan, Alex Vines, Wang Suolao, Zhang Chun, Zheng Yixiao, CEU colleagues and students who have taken my Politics of South–South Development in Africa course. I am indebted to Deborah Brautigam for her example and support since 2006, and the China–Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins for granting me a Research Fellowship in 2019, when I was fortunate to work with Lina Benabdallah, and use of their graphs, in which Marie Foster kindly helped.

Special thanks are due to Julia Davies, Susan Beer and especially George Owers at Polity for their exceptional assistance, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Posthumous thanks are due to the late Ian Taylor and his original recommendation, without which this book would never have happened. I am thankful to Thorsten Benner for his feedback on the initial proposal. I am grateful to this book’s anonymous external reviewers for providing considered and very helpful feedback on the complete draft. Others read chapters and offered useful advice, including William Mangimela, Yu-Shan Wu, Lina Benabdallah and especially Yoon Jung Park. I am particularly grateful to Chris Alden, for his invaluable guidance and support; Luke Patey for his generous help and quality feedback; Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, for unfailingly exceptional assistance; and Sarah Brockmeier-Large for feedback during challenging 2020 lockdown conditions. Any remaining errors, naturally, are my responsibility. This book owes considerably to my family’s support, and my biggest thanks go to Carlotta, Leo and Sarah.

ADB – African Development Bank

AfCFTA – African Continental Free Trade Area

Africa CDC – Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

AIIB – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

ANC – African National Congress

APSA – African Peace and Security Architecture

ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations

AU – African Union

BRI – Belt and Road Initiative

BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

CARI – China–Africa Research Initiative (Johns Hopkins)

CCM – Chama Cha Mapinduzi party

CCP – Chinese Communist Party

CCTV – China Central Television

CDB – China Development Bank

CGTN – China Global Television Network

China EXIM – Export–Import Bank of China

CI – Confucius Institute

CIDCA – China International Development Cooperation Agency

CNPC – China National Petroleum Corporation

DFID – Department for International Development (UK)

DRC – Democratic Republic of Congo

EAC – East African Community

EU – European Union

FDI – Foreign Direct Investment

FOCAC – Forum on China–Africa Cooperation

FRELIMO – Frente para a Libertação de Moçambique

G20 – Group of 20

ID-CCP – International Department of the CCP

IDP – internally displaced person

IMF – International Monetary Fund

MFA – Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MINUSMA – UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali

MOFCOM – Ministry of Commerce

MOU – Memorandum of Understanding

MPLA – Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola

NEPAD – New Partnership for Africa’s Development

NDB – New Development Bank

NGO – Non-governmental organization

OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PLA – People’s Liberation Army

POC – Protection of Civilians

PRC – People’s Republic of China

RMB – renminbi

SAIIA – South African Institute of International Affairs

SEZ – Special Economic Zone

SGR – Standard Gauge Railway

SOE – State-owned enterprise

SWAPO – South-West Africa People’s Organization

TAZARA – Tanzanian–Zambian Railway Authority

TICAD – Tokyo International Conference on African Development

UK – United Kingdom

UNCTAD – UN Conference on Trade and Development

UNGA – UN General Assembly

UNHRC – UN Human Rights Council

UNSC – UN Security Council