This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

production of vehicles in China and in East Asia is adding dynamism to the market and provoking strategy changes, and (iii) the … subcontractors. These new tendencies that include productive globalization, China and the new production chains require the …