Beijing has enjoyed considerable success in Africa, building close ties with countries from Sudan to South Africa, becoming a vital aid donor …, and developing military relationships with many of the continent's powers.

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is as comprehensive as its title suggests. Book Review: China and Africa: A Century of Engagement Increased aid, debt cancellation, and a boom in Chinese-African trade, with a strategic Chinese. Accordingly, China's rapidly increasing engagement in Africa does not so much reflect Sino-African interaction in the twenty-first century', in. Jun 29, 2012. The speaker presented his new book, China and Africa: A Century of. Engagement, co-authored with the sinologist Joshua Eisenman. New China and Africa A Century of Engagement by David H Shinn. engagement. *. In their book, China and Africa: a century of engagement, David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman provide an account of the relationship between China in Africa-Foreign Policy Association The increased Chinese attention to Africa has been one of the region's big stories during the last decade, not least because it seemed to come just as the West .

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This study applies a Chinese theoretical frameworkrelationality, as articulated by Qin Yaqing-to explain how Beijing creates and manipulates its relations with African partners to advance its "core interests" and leadership of the Global South. Relationality elucidates the "Community of Shared Future for Mankind"-an interlocking, multitiered network of Sinocentric relationships based on traditional Confucian conceptions of reciprocity. The pervasiveness of China's influence in Africa can be explained by its overlapping latticework of relationships involving thousands of African elites traversing all four levels-bilateral, subregional, regional and global. At each level, Chinese interlocutors use material support, inclusive rhetoric and host diplomacy to create and perpetuate so-called "win-win" relationships with African partners. Because the "relational power" these dyads generate disproportionately strengthens the weaker