China's Africa Strategy

China’s Emerging Africa Strategy: Implications for the United States

Nadège Rolland describes China’s new Africa strategy as an integral and integrated part of Beijing’s...

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CHINA IN AFRICA

Studies have also shown that the CCP-ILD focuses on developing party-to-party relations in countries that are useful for China’s economic development, including South Africa (ores, iron, copper, diamonds, and nickel), Angola (oil), Congo (oil), Mozambique (timber), Sudan (oil) and after 2011 South Sudan (where 80% of the oil is concentrated), and Zambia (copper).

—Jean-Pierre Cabestan in “Political Front Lines: China’s Pursuit of Influence in Africa”

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