Global and local challenges and opportunities : reflections on China and the governance of African natural resources

• Main Authors: Alden, Chris, Alves, Ana Cristina
• Other Authors: Grant, J. Andrew
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; China; Africa
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143852
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

China’s three decades of unbroken growth, transforming it from an economic backwater to the world’s second largest economy, has fuelled an ever-expanding demand for energy, strategic minerals and new markets (Downs, 2004: 21-41; Oliveira, 2008: 83-109). The promulgation of the government’s ‘going...