Special issue on ‘Africa and China: Emerging patterns of engagement’

E. Akyeampong, H. Fofack
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On 16–17 November 2017, the Africa–Asia Initiative at Harvard University, a consortium of eight institutions and programmes with a focus on Africa–Asia collaborations, held a twoday conference at the Harvard Center Shanghai in China. With the theme ‘Africa–Asia Connections: Bridging Past, Present, and Future’, the conference brought together academic researchers, policymakers, and individuals from the private sector for stimulating discussions on Africa’s engagement with India, Japan, and China through the lenses of migration, trade, and aid; and environment, infrastructure, and industry. The three papers in this special issue were first presented at the 2017 conference and provide a window onto some of the discussions at the conference, this one with a focus on ‘Africa and China: Emerging Patterns of Engagement.’ In 2009 China emerged as Africa’s leading trading partner and also surpassed the World Bank as Africa’s top lender. While this may have caught some by surprise, Austin Strange in his contribution points out that this marked seven decades of China’s engagement with Africa. China’s phenomenal rise to become the second largest economy in the world after the United States intersected with the ‘Africa Rising’ story between 2002 and 2013, when six of the world’s fastest growing economies were in Africa – Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Africa’s rise was driven by a global commodity boom, especially demand from China and India for oil and other commodities, and net resources inflows in the post-HIPC era. The slump in the commodity boom in 2014 with the slowing down of economic growth in Asia and Europe, aggravated by developments such as Brexit and America’s trade wars under the Trump government, have underscored the long-standing desire for African economies to diversify from commodity exports and to deepen South-South trade, which now accounts for over 50% of African trade, and intra-Africa trade. The signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement by 27 member countries of the African Union in Kigali in March 2018, and now by all 55 African countries, has given substance to the last-stated objective and positioned what would be the world’s largest free trade area by number of participating countries when
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“非洲与中国:新兴的交往模式”特刊
2017年11月16日至17日,由八个机构和项目组成的以亚非合作为重点的哈佛大学亚非倡议在中国哈佛上海中心举行了为期两天的会议。会议以“亚非联系:连接过去、现在和未来”为主题,汇集了学术研究人员、政策制定者和来自私营部门的个人,就非洲通过移民、贸易和援助与印度、日本和中国的接触展开讨论;还有环境、基础设施和工业。本期特刊中的三篇论文首次在2017年的会议上发表,为会议上的一些讨论提供了一个窗口,这次会议的重点是“非洲和中国:新兴的接触模式”。2009年,中国成为非洲最大的贸易伙伴,并超越世界银行(World Bank)成为非洲最大的贷款机构。虽然这可能会让一些人感到惊讶,但奥斯汀·斯特兰奇在他的文章中指出,这标志着中国与非洲交往了70年。2002年至2013年间,中国迅速崛起,成为仅次于美国的世界第二大经济体,与“非洲崛起”的故事发生了交集。当时,世界上增长最快的六个经济体——安哥拉、尼日利亚、埃塞俄比亚、乍得、莫桑比克和卢旺达——都在非洲。非洲的崛起受到全球大宗商品繁荣的推动,尤其是中国和印度对石油和其他大宗商品的需求,以及重债穷国后时代的资源净流入。2014年,随着亚洲和欧洲经济增长放缓,大宗商品繁荣出现下滑,英国脱欧和特朗普政府领导下的美国贸易战等事态发展加剧了这一趋势,突显了非洲经济体长期以来对大宗商品出口多元化和深化南南贸易(目前南南贸易占非洲贸易的50%以上)和非洲内部贸易的渴望。2018年3月,非洲联盟27个成员国在基加利签署了《非洲大陆自由贸易协定》,现在所有55个非洲国家都签署了《非洲大陆自由贸易协定》,这为最后提出的目标提供了实质性内容,并为世界上参与国数量最多的自由贸易区奠定了基础
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