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    China’s economic statecraft and African mineral resources: changing modes of engagement

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    China’s impressive inroads into Africa’s resources sectors over the past decade are explained largely by the timely match between a cash-loaded China in search of raw materials and a continent with a vast pool of underdeveloped mineral deposits, exploration of which has been hindered for decades by underinvestment and infrastructure bottlenecks.
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    The role of public sentiment and social media in the evolving China–Africa relationship

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media.
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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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    Women’s rights and organising in China

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2012
    As part of AWID's series Friday File, the organisation interviewed Cai Yiping, an Executive Committee member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) about the status of women’s rights and major issues affecting women in China. The following summary is structured according to the themes that were discussed.
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    China's foreign aid and government-sponsored investment activities: scale, content, destinations, and implications

    RAND Corporation, 2013
    In the first decade of the 21st century, China greatly expanded its development-assistance and government investment programmes. These programmes now support initiatives in more than 90 nations around the world. Yet, until recently, little was known about the size and direction of such programmes.
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    Africa-BRICS cooperation: implications for growth, employment and structural transformation in Africa

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2013
    What effect could trade with, and investment and aid from, the BRICS (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) have on growth, employment and structural transformation in Africa? How can Africa maximize the benefits of its engagement with the BRICS, and minimize the risks?
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    South Africa’s role in the BRICS and the G-20: China’s view

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The Chinese government and academia believe that as the largest economy in Africa, South Africa’s membership of the BRICS since 2011 has made the BRICS a more powerful and representative voice to speak for developing countries. As such, The Chinese government has attached great importance to the country’s relationship with South Africa.
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    Pastoralists and wildlife conservation in western China: collaborative management within protected areas on the Tibetan Plateau

    Pastoralism, 2012
    Pastoralists have long inhabited vast areas of western China, including the Tibetan Plateau region. Their traditional land use practices and cultural conservation ethic have helped to protect the natural resource base upon which they depend and the wildlife that co-exist with them in the grassland landscapes.
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    How can social and environmental services be provided for mobile Tibetan herders? Collaborative examples from Qinghai Province, China

    Pastoralism, 2011
    Tibetan herders have lived for centuries in the high grasslands of Central Asia, yet many development programs are currently transforming their lives. One of the main assumptions of government policy, in China and around the world, is that the provision of social services is best provided in settled, urban environments.
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    BRICS – South Africa’s way ahead?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2013
    South Africa’s admission to the group was motivated by China and supported by Russia. Its accession to the BRICS generated much discussion about the country’s suitability to be part of the formation. One of the real issues raised is that South Africa does not measure up to the other BRIC economies in terms of population, trade levels and performance, and growth rates.

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