China

China
Population:	1,330,044,544
GNI, $ Millions:	2,669,627
Debt:	$363 billion
Overview:	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 5
March 2011

Liu Zhiming

Chairman, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Election funds? Try Hong Kong

Antananarivo is looking for resource deals with Asian financiers to raise cash for an election campaign for interim leader Andry Rajoelina

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Minding the mines

President Condé called off mining contract reviews but will move to take a one-third share of all mining projects

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Can’t pay, won’t pay

Friendly rhetoric and big promises between Beijing and Abuja do not deliver as payment problems strain ties

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Platinum-bottomed deals

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi wants strengthened relations with China’s ‘good brother’ Zimbabwe but conditions on the latest deals are tougher

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

A formal study group at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development is exploring ways to take lessons from China’s development path and apply them to the fight against poverty in Africa. The OECD is one forum where the United States and Europ...

Vol 4 No 3
January 2011

Top in trade and investment

Confirming its status as Africa’s biggest trading partner, Beijing is taking on new diplomatic initiatives that may herald an eventual end to ‘non-interference’

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

Beijing’s balancing act

Usually a supporter of territorial integrity, Beijing is making plans to adapt to the prospect of an oil-rich and independent Southern Sudan

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

The next big plan

Policymakers face rising expectations and criticisms of Beijing’s trade and investments in Africa

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

How to plan the planning

The ruling Communist Party makes policy and the state bureaucracy implements it but decisions on economic strategy are taking in a wider range of opinion and expertise.

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