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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 2
  •  December 2010

Xi Jinping

Vice-President, China

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

The price of debt forgiveness

Kinshasa may have to rethink its deals with China if it wants debt write-offs from Western creditors

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

Bullets over Darfur

China has breached the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur by failing to ‘take the necessary measures to prevent the supply of arms and related materiel of all types’ from reaching belligerents in the Darfur conflict, according to a report by a UN Panel...

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

TAZARA troubles

China’s flagship African railroad project continues to lose money, and Chinese management may be brought in to avoid throwing more good money after bad. Built in the 1970s, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway was China’s most expensive foreign aid project and a m...

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

Best laid plans

Critics of President John Atta Mills’s trade deals with China are claiming that two of the biggest financing arrangements are unlikely to go ahead as planned. These are a US$5 billion bid by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation for a stake in the Jubi...

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

Wang Min

Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Shoot first, negotiate later

Opposition politicians lambast the Lusaka government’s timidity after Chinese managers shoot Zambian mine workers

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

A consensual affair

Oppositionists call for scrutiny of the promised financing from Beijing amid concerns over spiralling national debt

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

More contracts as the vote looms

Despite the impending transition to civil rule, the military regime has signed a mega-contract with the China Hyway Group for housing and roads

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal

In return for huge investments in housing and roads, the China Hyway Group has asked for several mining permits that would give it access to at least five bauxite deposits: those located at Koumbia in the north, those at Kouroussa in the central region a...

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