The End of China’s Non-Intervention Policy in Africa

Hodzi, Obert

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97349-4

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“…Furthermore, the US remains likely to face serious challenges in winning the political support of various potential recipient states for two key reasons. First, China's official finance activities have a first-mover advantage in providing generous and non-conditional official finance and capital, especially on the African continent, where China's political footprint has been expanding due to its demand for key natural resources (Hodzi 2019). Second, fuelled by the foreign and domestic policy failures of the Trump administration, the US' decreasing political legitimacy (as a key global governance actor) has not helped to win new strategic partnerships abroad and consolidate existing alliances, particularly in ways that can match the ambition and scope of China's official finance strategies (Regilme 2019).…”

Section: Contemporary Us Foreign Aidmentioning

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Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Regilme

Hodzi

2021

The International Spectator

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China is emerging as a key state actor in international developmenta sector that has been dominated by the United States for decades. US and Chinese foreign aid programs can be compared on the basis of several benchmarks: 1) official state definition and accounting of foreign aid programs; 2) historical foundations and origins; 3) sectoral distribution, particularly in terms of the professed goals and objectives of the aid program; 4) nature of targeted recipient actors; 5) institutional mechanisms for delivery in recipient countries. Notwithstanding particular differences, Chinese and US foreign aid portfolios demonstrate their respective strategic political and economic interests in two ways: they shape the domestic politics of recipient countries in ways that accommodate the donor government's policy preferences, and they enhance the social reputation and legitimacy of the donor state in the international system.

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Section: Contemporary Us Foreign Aidmentioning

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Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Regilme

Hodzi

2021

The International Spectator

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“…First, consolidate its role as leader of the 'Third World, particularly of the subsequent Non-Aligned Movement, which comprised of developing countries that refused to ideologically side with either the United States or the Soviet Union.' 24 Secondly, internationalise the Maoist revolution. The internationalisation agenda was enunciated in 1965 by China's Defense Minister, Lin Biao who argued that socialist countries and China should 'regard it as their internationalist duty to support the people's revolutionary struggles in Asia, Africa and Latin America.'…”

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Bridging the asymmetries? African students’ mobility to China

Hodzi

2020

Asian Ethnicity

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African students' mobility to China is growing-making China the second most popular destination for African students studying abroad, after France. Generally, due to the pervasive poverty and inequality in African states, educational mobility is a means to escape individual socioeconomic challenges for the transformation of lives. However, is the African students' mobility to China able to achieve those expectations? Through a critical analysis of current scholarship in African student education mobility the paper explores the underlying material and ideational motivations of China's education support in Africa. In probing Africans' educational mobility to China, the paper pushes the boundaries of enquiry beyond the surface of affordable education. Examining the asymmetries emerging from African students' mobility to China and questioning the bridging effect of educational mobility, the paper finds that education aid and development in Africa have always been a factor of external powers' domestic and foreign interests.

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“…Mkandawire 2001). If we are to understand China's engagement and the effects that follow, generalized statements, theoretical or political, should give way to an analysis that includes local institutions, practices, and elite configurations (Hodzi 2018) as they actually are rather than their idealization. Yet in a sense, albeit a limited one, this is what NSE attempts to do in pushing for policies that are attentive to a state's particular factor endowment and comparative advantage.…”

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China as Exemplar: Justin Lin, New Structural Economics, and the Unorthodox Orthodoxy of the China Model

Åberg

Becker

2020

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Despite vociferous disagreement by scholars and ambivalence by China over a "China Model" of development, China is still held up as an exemplar of development. Nowhere is this clearer than in the theory of New Structural Economics (NSE) promulgated by the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Justin Lin. We seek to critically engage Lin's theory apropos of China and China's geopolitical and economic interests in Africa. Lin argues that developing countries can learn from China's development experience, and his theory, NSE, fills this experience with theoretical content. China, though often dismissive of a "China Model," gains a soft power advantage from its association with NSE as an exemplar and from Lin's own role in rationalizing China-Africa economic interests in purely analytical and intellectual terms. In Ethiopia, the regime actively heeded Lin's policy advice and implemented development policies in line with his theoretical model. Justin Lin's "China Model" is not an antagonistic model, but part of mainstream economic theorizing. It does not represent a competing counter-hegemonic model. It is complementary to the global capitalist system. This is the unorthodox orthodoxy of Justin Lin's "China Model."

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The End of China’s Non-Intervention Policy in Africa

Cited by 27 publications

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Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Bridging the asymmetries? African students’ mobility to China

China as Exemplar: Justin Lin, New Structural Economics, and the Unorthodox Orthodoxy of the China Model

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