ABSTRACT. The paper reflects the problem of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) that recently have been raising vivid public discussion. The main focus of our study is to analyse the social debate on the FTA and to confront the social perception concerning the FTA with the socalled "expert knowledge". This may contribute both to better understanding of the controversies on the FTA and to proper indicating the possible sources of social conflicts. The results obtained seem to prove that the mismatch between social perception and expert knowledge on the FTA does exist.

The Chinese presence in Africa is a fact that cannot be ignored by anybody interested in China, Africa or in international affairs in general. Various explanations are given for the source of China's success on the continent. Pang (2009) emphasises Chinese foreign policy: its engagement in the Non-Aligned Movement and the Chinese doctrine of international relations -the so-called Beijing consensus as the main reason why many African governments have decided to tighten their relations with China.Some others, like Bräutigam (2010), Rotberg (2008), and so on, emphasize economic factors: Chinese economic aid, engagement in infrastructure development and its ability to start and conduct business in a difficult African business environment.

This article aims to analyse the process of emergence of China-related stereotypes in Angola, which have started to appear with an increasing number of Angolans establishing direct and non-direct contacts with the Chinese. The article investigates this issue based on the content of China-related articles and netizens’ opinions published online from 2010 to 2015 in Angolan media (altogether 5005 cases) supplemented with coded results of 61 in-depth interviews. The results of qualitative and quantitative analysis suggest that the general image of the Chinese held by Angolans is rather positive. However, the influx of Chinese migrants into this country and a relatively high number of problematic situations involving members of the Chinese diaspora have resulted in gradual worsening of the image of this specific group. Such problematic issues include the low quality of engineering projects, maltreatment of Angolan workers and a possibility of Chinese neo-colonization of Angola.

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