Chinese economic statecraft : a comparative study of China’s oil-backed loans in Angola and Brazil

• 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/10356/79414; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25520; http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/593
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Africa’s and South America’s rich endowments of resources and great need for infrastructure development make them perfect candidates for China’s “infrastructure-for-resources” loans. Over the past decade, such an arrangement for pursuing China’s resource-security goals overseas – namely, securing lo...