The Political Economy of China’s Relations with Africa

• Main Authors: Szu-wei Ho, 何思薇
• Other Authors: Yi-Ren Dzeng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9g6c6y

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 政治學研究所 === 101 === 　Since “The Chinese Economic Reform Policy” in 1978, China obtained a substantial amount of overall wealth through the three decades of rapid economic development, but it caused many problems as well. China now relies on overseas agricultural inputs to meet the needs of their huge population; China''s current energy production can only satisfy 50% of domestic needs due to double-digit economic growth and limited natural resources. 　China''s trip to Africa trip had two different views, optimistic people think China will help Africa to develop resources, such as oil, natural gas, rare minerals, etc., thus, the backward countries can benefit from it. However, pessimistic people believe that China''s rise in Africa will let the major powers to compete for resources and lead to conflicts. African countries welcome Chinese government involved in African affairs, because China is not like Europe and US do, which is that using democracy, human rights or other issues as a prerequisite for investment and aid. Nevertheless, this kind of layouts will highlight the contradiction between Western countries and Africa. 　The main goal of China’s layout in Africa is not only to obtain resources, also to promote political and economic values, furthermore, to win over the support of these countries. Therefore, the Western countries started to pay attention to this trend which can affect democratic values, state that they should get rid of prejudices and to deal with Africa actively. 　In short, the international order changes subtly in case of the rise of China, and it is obvious that China’s layout in Africa influences the international order indeed.