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There are a variety of critical perspectives scrutinizing the balance of power relationship between China and Africa, and China's role concerning human rights in Africa. [181] [182] Increasingly, concerns have been raised by Africans and Western observers that China's relationship with Africa is neocolonialist in nature.
Trade between China and Africa largely grew exponentially following China's joining of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the opening up of China to emigration (of Chinese people to Africa) and the free movement of companies, peoples, and products both to and from the African continent starting from the early 2000 onwards.
David D. Hale, In the Balance: China's unprecedented growth and implications for the Asia–Pacific, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, February 2006, ISBN 1-920722-91-2; Fergus Hanson, China: stumbling through the Pacific, Lowy Institute, July 2009; Ron Crocombe, Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, 2007, ISBN 978-982-02-0388-4
First, there is no monopoly or duopoly of influence in Africa. Beyond the US and China, there is a mosaic of actors, both African and non-African What Africans really think about China’s role in ...
The stated purpose of Confucius Institutes (CIs) is to promote and teach Chinese culture and language around the world. [18]: 138 The director of the CI program, Xu Lin, stated that CIs were started to cater to the sudden uptick in interest of the Chinese language around the world. They also provide Chinese language teaching staff from mainland ...
The foundation of China’s relationship with Russia, Allen told Yahoo News, is that both countries “are against the world order that the West, led by the United States, has set up since World ...
China's bilateral trade with African countries rose from $10 billion in 2000 to $125 billion in 2010 and stands to reach $300 billion by 2015, surpassing the United States as Africa's largest trading partner. China's trade with Latin America has also increased dramatically, rising to 1,500% between 2000 and 2010 through loans and direct foreign ...
Among the reasons for this are geographical proximity and historical and cultural ties, China's perception of Japan as a possible resurgent threat, Japan's close relations with the United States since the end of World War II, and Japan's role as the second-ranked industrialized power in the world.