Foreign Policy In Focus | China in Africa: It's (Still) the Governance, Stupid - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Mar 07
  

  koranteng

  Akwe's analysis of China's increased engagement with Africa over the past 15 years. Infrastructure baby! Strictly Business as EPMD used to rap. Insightful on the potential pitfalls of this approach.

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  • Deep inside the tropical forest of Gabon, 500 miles from the coast, China is going where no other investors dare. A Chinese consortium, led by the China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation, has won the contract to develop Gabon’s massive Belinga iron ore deposit. In return for purchasing the entire output, Chinese operators will build not only the extractive infrastructure at Belinga but a hydro-electric dam to power it, a railway to the coast, and a deepwater port north of the capital, Libreville, for exporting the ore.
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  dave sgonechina

  Over 800 Chinese companies, the vast majority of them state-owned, are operating in 49 African countries.

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• 09 Mar 07
  

  dan maertens

  zeer goed overzicht van de vrantwoordelijkheden bij China in Africa

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