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China
Population: 1,330,044,544
GNI, $ Millions: 2,669,627
Debt: $363 billion
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Having hit most of its targets from the 2006 FOCAC, Beijing laid out a similarly ambitious programme for 2009-2012 at the 2009 Sharm el Sheikh FOCAC, including $10 bn. in concessional loans, more cooperation in the sciences and technology transfers. China will face more questions about opaque companies like China Sonangol and China International Fund, which committed to $15 bn. of investment in Guinea and Zimbabwe in 2009.

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  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

The year of the dragon, again

China’s trade with Africa has overtaken the USA’s trade with the continent and will soon rival that of the European Union

  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

How the IMF helps Chinese companies

Beijing’s cooperation with the International Monetary Fund often goes unnoticed. China has been quietly working with the IMF to pressure African governments to remove fuel subsidies, after its companies signed several deals for oil and gas processing.

  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

The diplomatic truce goes on

President Ma Ying-jeou’s election victory on 14 January gave comfort to those who feared that an opposition win might rupture the delicate détente between China and Taiwan – and herald an end to the ‘diplomatic truce’ that has prevented China from wooing ...

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Beijing’s gas loan tests IMF

Officials in Washington are in last-minute negotiations over a compromise deal on the terms of China’s multi-billion-dollar loan to Accra

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

A special relationship in the making

Many in the governing National Democratic Congress want to boost ties with China to new heights: their target is some US$10 billion of Chinese loans (AAC Vol 3 No 12). President John Atta Mills’s NDC government has lined up $4 bn. of additional loans in 3...

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Pipeline problems

On 28 November, Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman announced that South Sudan would no longer be able to export its crude through the northern pipeline and Port Sudan, provoking the anger and intervention of the Chinese government.

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Alarm over security deal

President Sata’s government investigates inflated contracts that were financed with Chinese concessional loans

  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Kaunda settles Sata's differences with Beijing

President Michael Sata is trying to reassure Chinese politicians and business leaders about his government’s planned reforms.

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Underground and under threat

Non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch launched the first in-depth report about abusive practices in Chinese-owned mines in Zambia on 3 November. It is based on the evidence of scores of workers at Chinese copper mines and plants. They reported ...

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Harare in the sky with diamonds

The government is working on a diamond-backed deal to buy new aeroplanes as the Kimberley Process allows the country to export gems again

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