Uneasy allies: China's evolving relations with Angola

Corkin, Lucy

doi:10.1080/02589001.2011.555192

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“…Angola's post-war economy required huge amounts of social and infrastructural investment and so external financing was sought. It was here that China in need of energy resources offered Angola a series of oil-backed credit lines with little conditionality (Corkin, 2011). In the first official estimate of Chinese credit to Angola, the Chinese Ambassador said in early 2011 that US$14.5 billion in credit had been provided since the end of the war from the three Chinese state banks.…”

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‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning

Mohan

2013

International Development Planning Review

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‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning

Mohan

2013

International Development Planning Review

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“…A significant part of this has focused on 'resource diplomacy' (Power et al 2012;Carmody et al 2012;Carmody and Taylor 2010), given China's increased demand for natural resources to fuel its growing economy. This has resulted in sometimes uneasy alliances, but also important accommodations (Corkin 2011a). In 2012, SinoAfrican trade reached its highest levels yet, at almost US$200 billion according to official Chinese sources (Yang 2013 The role of Chinese financing, across sectors, has been particularly important.…”

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New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture

Scoones¹,

Cabral²,

Tugendhat³

2013

IDS Bulletin

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There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A wide variety of forms of support are seen, involving different financial modalities, including aid, concessional loans, trade deals and commercial investment. Our focus is on the ‘encounters’ that occur during negotiations and the intersection of wider framing discourses with practices on the ground in particular projects. Brazilian and Chinese domestic political dynamics, competing social imaginaries and histories of agrarian change all shape development cooperation. Meanwhile, African governments are not just passive recipients; they exert agency in negotiations, trading off different players. Outcomes depend on the particular context, and the new aid and investment scene in African agriculture is highly varied, presenting opportunities as well as challenges for the future.

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“…Agency on the part of selected Chinese and Angolan actors has produced in the CIF-GRN an institutional assemblage that sits within the state apparatus but is only connected to selected and clandestine elements within the state. As Corkin (2011a) argues this might be a response on the part of the Chinese to Angola's rampant corruption in which direct ties are seen as better than diffuse budget support. The creation of unaccountable enclaves within states echoes the Structural Adjustment era when 'parallel governments' (Hutchful 1989) were set up, mainly in finance ministries, by appointed technocrats.…”

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“…It was in this context that China, in need of energy resources, sought to offer Angola a series of oil-backed credit lines with little conditionality (Corkin 2011a). China's ExIm Bank provided the first funding for infrastructure development in 2002 and a 'framework agreement' for new economic cooperation was signed by the Angolan Ministry of Finance and the Chinese Ministry of Trade in 2003, whilst in March 2004 the first US$2 billion financing package for public investment projects was approved.…”

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The Politics of Inclusive Development

Hickey

Sen²,

Bukenya³

2014

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Uneasy allies: China's evolving relations with Angola

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‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning

‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning

New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture

The Politics of Inclusive Development

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