China’s economic statecraft and African mineral resources : changing modes of engagement

• Main Author: Alves, Ana Cristina
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::China
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106534; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24986; http://cartainternacional.abri.org.br/index.php/Carta/article/view/56/39
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

China’s impressive inroads into Africa’s resources sectors over the past decade are largely due to thetimely match between cash-loaded China in search for raw materials and a continent with a vast pool ofunderdeveloped mineral deposits, whose exploration has been hindered for decades by underinvestm...