This article examines the emerging relationship between China and Africa focusing in particular on the drivers for contemporary engagement, the plethora of actors involved and the challenges facing the long term sustainability of close economic and political ties. It asks if the methodologies of...

This study applies the fixed effects vector decomposition procedure on a panel of 38 African countries to analyze factors that determine China’s trade engagement with African countries. Results show that China's trade engagement with Africa is driven mainly by African countries’ market size,...