Media reports that a China Eximbank contract for Montenegro’s expensive mountain highway required land as collateral reflect reporters’ lack of understanding of normal international legal practice. Reporters erroneously - and perhaps deliberately - presented a standard sovereign immunity...

On June 21, 2021, the French public television channel France 2 aired a report in which it was stated that Montenegro, a heavily indebted nation, was at risk of "having to cede some of its land to China" as a result of its inability to pay back a loan for the construction of a highway. According...

Although little research exists on business engagement between French and Chinese companies in Africa, Thierry Pairault offers in this policy brief many significant examples of French and Chinese engagement. While African governments want to carry out infrastructure projects at the lowest cost,...

The purpose of this paper is to review available statistical and in-formational databases in order to understand the actual importance of Chinese direct investment in Africa and to infer its strategic significance. Hence, I shall successively present three main data and information sources, then...

Dans cette note, nous entreprenons d'éclairer la " renaissance " des valeurs confucéennes (pour reprendre une expression des dirigeants singapouriens dans les années 1980) pour montrer comment les dirigeants de Chine populaire les utilisent pour contrer les défauts de leur économie,...

La majorité des études sur la présence chinoise en Afrique tendent par la force des choses à privilégier une approche par les entreprises publiques. Dans cette recherche nous nous focaliserons sur une catégorie spécifique d'entreprises publiques, celle des entreprises sous la tutelle...

The purpose of this paper is to review available statistical and in-formational databases in order to understand the actual importance of Chinese direct investment in Africa and to infer its strategic significance. Hence, I shall successively present three main data and information sources, then...

Relations between China and African countries are getting better known even if sub-Saharan Africa is more often documented than Maghreb. The organisation of strikes by Algerians workers employed by Chinese firms or the repatriation of Chinese workers from building sites in Libya has been widely...

Cet article se propose de décrire les flux et stocks d'investissement directs en Chine, entrants et sortants, et de tenter d'apprécier ce qu'ils pourraient révéler du processus de développement actuel. Il tend à montrer notamment les difficultés que ce pays rencontre à acquérir les...