What is it about?
This paper addresses one of the key issues responsible for China's growing engagement with African countries (particularly, the oil-rich countries).
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Why is it important?
The paper brings to light a major reason for the seemingly 'heavy' investments made by China across the African Continent and why many African countries are also so interested in these investments despite cries from the West about the so-called 'dangers' involved in having lunch with the Dragon.
Perspectives
China's heavy investment in Africa is very useful in several respects. However, having recognised what is actually prompting these investments and China’s active engagement in Africa, African leaders must know ‘how’ to relate with the Chinese. China is not the Santa Claus to be doling out billions of dollars for nothing. Thus, as Mugabe did in 2005, all African states may choose to ‘look East’ from where the sun rises and turn their backs to the West where the sun sets. However, it must be also noted that despite the beauty of the rising sun, one cannot really set their eyes on it for long; for the sun’s rays have the tendency to blind the beholder and can also produce several unwelcomed consequences.
Dr. Thomas Prehi Botchway
University of Education, Winneba
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This page is a summary of: Beneath the Cover of China’s Rising Engagement in Africa: A Security Perspective, Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, July 2018, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/arjass/2018/42838.
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