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    Will Chinese trade preferences aid African LDCs?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Trade and investment drive China’s headline relations with African states. Sino-African trade has grown more than tenfold since 1995, and China is now the continent’s third-largest export market. As is well known, Beijing’s interest in Africa is principally about securing primary products – energy especially – for its growing economy.
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    Goodwill and hard bargains: The DRC, China and India

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The economic and political engagement of China and India with the African continent is growing, but the complex dynamics of this engagement, particularly at country-specific level, remain under-researched.
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    China in Kenya: addressing counterfeit goods and construction sector imbalances

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    China has become a key player in trade, investment and development co-operation in Kenya. Although mainly in the construction and manufacturing sectors, Chinese investments in Kenya have attracted praise and condemnation in equal proportion from various quarters.
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    Hong Kong - South Africa’s gateway to China

    2012
    South Africa has responded to the rise of East Asia by building new commercial links with the region, especially with China. South Africa has sought to build a strategic partnership with the Asian giant in the hope of securing a key political ally and an economic development partner.
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    Nigeria and the BRICs: diplomatic, trade, cultural and military relations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The increasing involvement of the emerging powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively called the BRICs, in Africa is a much-discussed topic.
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    China in Africa Policy Brief: China’s preferential trade policy for Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    While those aspects of China’s foreign policy that concern Africa have received considerable attention, a key dimension — that is, the provisions they make for preferential trade access — has not been the subject of close scrutiny or analysis.
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    The BRICS fallacy

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013
    Focus on the BRICS began in 2001. Back then, the group only included Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010). It all started with a November 2001 Goldman Sachs research paper titled ‘‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs,’’ written by Jim O’Neill.
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    The economic engagement footprint of rising powers in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of trade, foreign direct investment and aid flows

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the Gulf states or Turkey have entered the development arena through their expanding relationships with low-income countries (LICs) . A widespread perception is that these countries are establishing new forms of engagement, mainly under a South–South cooperation framework.
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    Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: China-Latin America cross-council taskforce

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013
    Although Chinese corporations were relatively unknown in Latin America until a few years ago, their direct investments in the region have averaged about US$10 billion per year since 2010.
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    China's evolving Africa policy: the limits of socialization - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2011
    China’s policies toward Africa have transformed dramatically in the last decade, and this evolution has coincided with important shifts in China’s institutional decision-making processes on African affairs.  This journal issue presents new insights into how China’s presence on the African continent has evolved, what challenges it has encountered, and how this all affected th

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