Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: In the recent two decades, China"s economic involvement in Africa was accused of colonialist actions by many Western observers.Nonetheless, most of these accusations have no basis.China tends to build a "development partnership" with African countries with the aim of treating African countries as a strategic partner.In this article, after comprehensively exploring China"s engagement with Africa based on data and case studies, it argues that China"s engagement in Africa in recent decades has nothing to do with neocolonialism.On the contrary, China"s engagement not simply facilitates Africa"s independence from the West and also promotes a fledgling new world order in Africa based on win-win and equal sovereignty.Due to the emergence of new order, the South-South cooperation is increasingly expectable.
Authors: Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi, CHEN Biao, ZHANG Jiaming, LIU Yuankang, MAI Xiaoqin, GUO Li, ZHAN Guangyao, DIAO Weifan, Tidiane Magassouba
Institution: Zhejiang Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4387777439