New Presence of China in Africa

Meine Pieter van Dijk is professor of water services management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, professor of entrepreneurship at the Maastricht School of Management, and professor of urban management at the Institute of Social Studies and at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• Table of Contents - 6 Part I. Overview of the issues and China ’s success - 8 1. Introduction: objectives of and instruments for China ’s new presence in Africa - 10 2. China ’s opening up, from Shenzhen to Sudan - 32 Part II. Instruments - 54 3. Chinese aid to Africa, origins, forms and issues - 56 4. China ’s investments in Africa - 84 5. Competing trade policies with respect to Africa - 102 Part III. Case studies - 116 6. State-driven Chinese investments in Zambia : Combining strategic interests and profits - 118 7. Th e political impact of the Chinese in Sudan - 142 8. Th e impact of the Chinese in other African countries and sectors - 158 Part IV. Conclusions - 176 9. Responsible production in Africa: Th e rise of China as a threat or opportunity? - 178 10. Conclusions from China ’s activities in Africa - 200 About the authors - 222 Index - 224

This is one of the best books on Chinese-African relations from an economic-managerial perspective. It provides a great insight on Chinese FDI, Foreign Aid and Trade with Africa and therefore a must for policy-makers, researchers and students dealing with the influence of China in Africa.Diederik de Boer, Director of the Sustainable Development Centre, Maastricht School of ManagementThe dramatic increase in China’s economic and political heft has changed the nature of China’s relations with African countries,and van Dijk’s book (much of it—six of ten chapters— written by the editor himself) is a welcome and careful consideration of the situation, effects, actors, motives, opportunities, and potential problems.African Studies Review, Volume 55, Number 3