Dragon Slayers
In this week's emerging powers in Africa watch, Stephen Marks reviews the work of researchers Yoon Park and Barry Sautman who have teamed up to explore the seldom- researched topic of anti-Chinese...
View ArticleNairobi workshop gives civil society dimension on FOCAC
In this week's emerging powers watch, Stephen Marks reports back on the proceedings of Fahamu's two-day CSO FOCAC workshop in Nairobi on 26 and 27 November, 2009.
View ArticleContinuities, Readjustments and New Explorations
In the wake of the Sharm El-Shikh meeting, Chinese ministries and organizations are even busier mobilising all necessary resources to make up a few shortfalls in achieving “the eight policy measures to...
View ArticleTrade, investment, power and the China-in-Africa discourse
An international discourse of China-in-Africa has emerged, particularly in Western countries with dense links to Africa: The US, the UK and France. In this article, Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong assert...
View ArticleChina’s inroads into North Africa: An assessment of Sino-Algerian relations
The geopolitics of African countries such as Algeria, a country in North Africa that has traditionally enjoyed strong relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and whose strategic importance...
View ArticleThe international expansion of Chinese dam builders
China is now the world's largest producer of, hydropower, with Chinese firms now building 19 of the 24 largest hydropower plants currently under construction worldwide, and roughly half of all the...
View ArticleTunis conference puts Sino-Africa trade ties under microscope
2008 statistics show that total trade between the China and Africa was valued at $106.8 billion, up 45.1 per cent in 2007. These fast rising Sino-Africa ties are expected to face a major test in March...
View ArticleAfrica rising
The International Monetary Fund believes growth in sub-Saharan Africa will be 1 percentage point above the global average, and puts eight African countries in its top 20 fastest-expanding economies in...
View ArticleNamibian, Chinese trade enjoys rapid growth
Despite the financial crisis that has wrecked global economies, the volume of trade between Namibia and China has grown, resulting in commerce between the two countries exceeding US$550 million in...
View ArticleEmerging markets: The new drivers of global growth
While economic growth in developed markets is only now starting to slowly recover from the battering it took during the global financial crisis (GFC), emerging markets have been powering ahead, writes...
View ArticleIndia steps up scramble with China for African energy
India has stepped up its efforts to gain an economic foothold in Africa in a new scramble with China for the continent's resources, signing energy deals with top oil producers Angola and Nigeria,...
View ArticleIf you want exposure to the BRIC countries invest in South Africa
In this article, Richard Lapper asserts that South African companies are making up for lost time in their own continent. Links with other emerging markets - themselves interested in Africa's resources...
View ArticleVying for Africa: India needs to tap its diaspora to match China
Ishani Duttagupta argues, with the support of an number of influential commentators, that India can indeed do a China in the continent of unlimited resources, with its deep diaspora giving her an edge.
View ArticleMacau Forum January 2010
As Macau marks the 10-year anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, Lucy Corkin discusses the 'special administrative region's' role in promoting stronger economic ties between Portuguese-speaking...
View ArticleThe new 'scramble for Africa'?
While the Peoples' Republic of China is building the new headquarters of the AU, which has already cost Beijing more than US$130 million a year until its completion, other powers did not want to miss...
View ArticleUnveiling the diversity of Chinese finance in Africa
China increasingly is playing a crucial role in African economies. Two-way trade between China and Africa exceeded US$106 billion in 2008 and Beijing is the leading trading partner with South Africa,...
View ArticleWSF: Global South’s growing role in post-crisis world
'Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world' was the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
View ArticleIndia: Banking on the future
We can learn lessons from India's unique approach to finance, technology and poverty, writes Greg Mills.
View ArticleKinshasa’s missing millions
Evidence of grand corruption is mounting in Beijing’s showcase $6 billion barter deal with the Kinshasa government.
View ArticleIndian and Chinese investors making a play for Africa
As the great and good of the mobile industry browsed the exhibits at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona this week, they may have overlooked a couple of watershed moments in...
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