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Title:Accumulation with or without dispossession? A 'both/and' approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola
Author:Ovadia, Jesse Salah
Year:2013
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:40
Issue:136
Pages:233-250
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Angola
China
Subjects:foreign investments
neocolonialism
development
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2013.794724
Abstract:In the burgeoning field of research on China in Africa, analyses generally fall on a continuum between two divergent positions. With reference to Angola, this paper reviews perspectives on China in Africa as well as the main features of Chinese engagement with the continent in order to interrogate the 'divide' between the 'China threat' and 'peaceful rise' positions. The goal is not to take a centrist position, but rather to suggest that China represents for Africa both a new imperialism and a new model of development. While differentiating between the new Euro-American and Chinese imperialisms, China's new engagement, exemplified by its relationship with Angola, is a project of recolonization and appropriation of economic surplus. The Chinese variety of imperialism, however, offers African States a compromise to their elite and to their citizens that has heretofore been missing from post-colonial Euro-American imperialism: the prospect of sustained economic growth and improvement to the quality of everyday life. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French [Journal abstract]
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