China's increasing engagement with Africa has become a subject of great controversy. The country's commercial interests in Africa have been called a new form of colonialism by some in...
FOCAC Ten Years Later: Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forward, is a joint project of the Centre of African Studies, Peking University, and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). The report is being...
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was established in 2000. It is a multilateral platform for exchange and cooperation between China and African countries that have formal diplomatic...
Deborah Brautigam spoke against the motion "Beware of the dragon: Africa should not to China" at an Intelligence Squared debate in London. She is a leading expert on China in Africa, and the author...
Following our other recent articles concerning Sino-African oil relations and the role of Chinese national oil companies (NOCs), this article in our China-Africa series takes a look at the case of...
The BRICS leaders met at the third BRIC cummit in Sanya, Hainan, on April 14. South Africa's first official participation to this summit means the extension of the BRIC group to BRICS. This will...
This article examines recent Chinese efforts to construct a series of official economic cooperation zones in Africa. These zones are a central platform in China’s announced strategy of engagement in...
This paper addresses the immediate impacts of the China–Africa trade on Africa’s informal traders and its longer term impact on urban poverty, based on a comparison of the major cities of two West...
Sino-African relations are currently characterized by unprecedented growth in all dimensions. In several areas, the sustainability of Sino-African cooperation is difficult to assess at this early...