China's ‘win-win’ cooperation : unpacking the impact of infrastructure-for-resources deals in Africa

• Main Author: Alves, Ana Cristina
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::International relations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106166; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24977; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2013.811337
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper discusses China's use of infrastructure-for-resources loans in Africa as a win–win economic cooperation tool. This formula, offering generous loans for infrastructure in exchange for resource access, came into being largely as a default cooperation tool, inspired by China's own...