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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 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Highway to development

Accra plans to use Chinese loans to integrate the Northern Region into the booming southern economy

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

A friend in need

With most of Sudan’s known oil reserves now belonging to the South Sudan government in Juba, the Sudanese government needs China even more. For Beijing, though, Khartoum may now be a less meaningful ally. Nonetheless, Khartoum hopes to maintain the t...

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Margaret Chan

Director General, World Health Organisation

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Castles made of sand

Instability in the Middle East and North Africa has put pressure on China’s non-interference principle, pushing it into more pragmatic territory

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Progress noted

In late June, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced its support for the constitutional changes that will allow King Mohammed VI to maintain power while giving more authority to a civilian prime minister and opening the country to more freedom...

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Polish to a shine

Beijing frets over the image of Chinese companies as the Zimbabwean opposition rails against more loans and Chinese diamond miners

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Squatters, pipes and rails

After only two years in office, the National Democratic Congress government has increased Ghana’s total debt from US$8.1 billion at the end of 2008 to $13.4 bn. in May 2011. That gives the government a debt-to-gross domestic product ratio of 35%. That exc...

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Shifting foundation

The terms of the mines-for-infrastructure contract are flexible, which is good because they’re up for negotiation again

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Not so fast, Frank

Businessman Vasile Frank Timis, the Chairman of African Minerals Limited (AML), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese partners to develop a project that has already been awarded to another company.

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Bélinga bonus, uncertainty for CMEC

The Gabonese government is looking for a way out of its contract with a Chinese company to mine iron ore at Bélinga

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