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The forest for the trees: trade, investment and the China-in-Africa discourse.(ABSTRACTS)
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Pacific Affairs
- Article date:
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Sautman, Barry; Hairong, Yan
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Trade and investment are topics central to the China-in-Africa discourse that has strongly emerged from the West in the last few years. Western opinion leaders, along with several African opposition parties, often characterize China's role in Africa as "colonialist," "neo-imperialist" or "predatory." Placing China's trade and investment in the continent in comparative perspective, the paper assesses the empirical validity of such charges, by examining those issues that receive disproportionate attention in the discourse: China's importation of oil from ...