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China Goes to Africa: a strategic move?
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November 2014

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Jianwei Wang

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Jing Zou

Entering the twenty-first century, particularly under the reign of Hu Jintao, China began to pursue an increasingly pro-active diplomacy in Africa. Most analysis on China's offensive diplomacy in Africa focuses on Beijing's thirst for energy and raw materials, and for economic profits and benefits. That is why it is often called ‘energy diplomacy’ or ‘economic diplomacy’ as if China, just like Japan in the 1980s, became another ‘economic animal’. But if one looks at the history of the PRC's foreign policy, Beijing has seldom pursued its diplomacy from purely economic considerations. Is this time any different? This article exams China's diplomacy in Africa from a strategic and political perspective such as its geo-strategic calculations, political and security ties with African countries, peacekeeping and anti-piracy efforts in the region, support for African regionalism, etc. It argues that China's diplomatic expansion in Africa, while partially driven by its need for economic growth, cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration its strategic impulse accompanying its accelerating emergence as a global power. Africa is one of China's diplomatic ‘new frontiers’ as exemplified by new Chinese leader Xi Jinping's maiden foreign trip to Africa in 2013.

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... Research shows that acquiring raw materials for domestic industrial use (e.g., Drogendijk & Blomkvist, 2013;Mumuni & Murphy, 2018;Sanfilippo, 2010;Shan et al., 2018;Wang & Zou, 2014), sourcing energy supplies to power the rapidly expanding industries at home (e.g., Alden & Davies, 2006;Aning & Lecoutre, 2008;Anyu & Ifedi, 2008), gaining access to a large market and cheap labor (e.g., Carike et al., 2012;Drogendijk & Blomkvist, 2013;Ozawa & Bellak, 2010), and offsetting domestic competitive pressures (e.g., Gu, 2009) are the top economic priorities behind China's engagements in Africa. Seeking diplomatic support to mainly counter what China has termed "Western hegemony" at the UN and other global bodies (e.g., Mlambo et al., 2016;Wang & Zou, 2014) appears to be the major political driver of China's relationship with Africa. ...

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Africa Journal of Management ISSN: (Print) ( China-Africa relationships: A systematic literature review and future directions China-Africa relationships: A systematic literature review and future directions
China Goes to Africa: a strategic move?
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