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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 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Maputo opens its markets

If it comes to fruition, China Tong Jian’s multibillion-dollar agreement promises to bring in Mozambique’s largest-ever investment

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Building a Chinatown in Catembe

When Prime Minister Aires Aly and Planning and Development Minister Aiuba Cuereneia met the delegation from China Tong Jian Investment Corporation in late August, they signed a memorandum for the construction of a Chinese residential and industrial park ...

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Spooks, not railways

Abuja wants to use Chinese export finance to build a spy network with the controversial ZTE company – instead of a railway

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Blood diamonds and old soldiers

The Chiadzwa/Marange alluvial diamond fields remain off limits to Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy. Amid growing reports of Chinese involvement, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu remains tight-lipped and parsimonious with informat...

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Gong Jianzhong

China’s Ambassador to Ghana

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

Queueing up for Lake Albert's oil

Indian and Chinese companies have joined the race for Uganda's oil assets in the Lake Albert Basin, where at least 2 billion barrels of oil have been discovered. Opportunities have arisen since President Yoweri Museveni's government is using the transfer ...

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

Relations have never been better

If only half of the recent deals signed by China and South Africa come to fruition, they promise to revolutionise Africa's biggest economy

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

In the BRIC of it

President Jacob Zuma's August trip to China completed the final stage of his tour this year of the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China - economies. The aim is to win investments and triple South Africa's annual gross domestic product growth to 7%. Here...

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

China weighs its options

Whatever the outcome of next January's referendum on Southern independence, China wants its oil to keep flowing

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

Beijing backs Nairobi over Omer el Beshir

The International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir continues to cast clouds over China's Africa policy. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki invited Omer el Beshir to Nairobi for the 27 August grand ceremony to c...

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