This book describes China's growing range of activities in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region. The three most … important instruments China has at its disposal in Africa are development aid, investments and trade policy. The Chinese … Africa. China's economic success can partly be ascribed to the huge availability of cheap labour, which is primarily employed …

I. Overview of the issues and China's success -- Introduction: Objectives and instruments for China's new presence in … Africa / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- China's opening up, from Shenzhen to Sudan / Filip de Beule and Dani(c)±l Van den Bulcke … -- II. Instruments. Chinese aid to Africa, origins, forms and issues / Jean-Rapha(c)±l Chaponni(c)·re -- China's investments …

"State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's international behaviour, we have to … China's foreign relations, establishing the framework that we deploy in the following empirical chapters. It argues that … China's state transformation has shaped, and been shaped by, the post-1978 shift from the Maoist command economy to a …