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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 6
  •  April 2011

One law for Zambians, another for Chinese

Michael Sata of the opposition Patriotic Front says: ‘Under Rupiah, there are two laws: one for Chinese and one for other investors.’ He was reacting to news that Zambia’s Director of Public Prosecution had dropped the charges of attempted murder aga...

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Old debts and new deals

Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal will decide this month whether FG Hemisphere, a United States-based vulture fund, is entitled to seize US$100 million from payments due to the Congolese state from the Sicomines consortium. The case pits Hong Kong’s ...

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Wang Tianpu

President, China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec)

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Campaigns made in China

President Déby is campaigning in April’s presidential polls on the back of infrastructure and natural resource projects supported by China

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Do it by the deadline

After managing a transition which led to the election on 12 March of new President Mahamdou Issoufou, the military junta has announced that it will not hand over power on 6 April without first ensuring that contracts signed by the previous regime under ou...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Surveying Sicomines

The Congolese authorities are having trouble holding their Chinese partners to account while new barter deals and contracts pile up

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

All roads lead to Beijing

Chinese construction companies are not just carrying out Beijing-backed projects, they are also winning contracts from international donors. The first phases of telecommunications projects funded by China Export-Import Bank are under way.

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Good neighbours

Addax, a British-listed oil and gas company controlled by China’s Sinopec, may benefit from this month’s decision by the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments to collaborate in the Bakassi Peninsula after resolving their long-standing dispute over the area...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

A new nation

Once an opponent of South Sudanese secession, then diplomatically agnostic, China is now making up for lost time in shoring up relations with the soon-to-be-independent Government of Southern Sudan to protect its current interests and develop new ones. Th...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Friends and benefits

Veteran oppositionist Michael ‘King Cobra’ Sata often accuses President Rupiah Banda and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy of being too cosy with China. Now Sata stands accused of having his own Asian links. On 14 March, an aricle in the state-...

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