Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINA Wang Shenyang 28th February 2012 Director, Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Commerce Ministry, China Wang Shenyang led a group to Libya in February to review the remains of Chinese projects and determine what could be salvaged. Chinese companies had some US$20 billion in housing, railway...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | INDIA M.D. Mallya 28th February 2012 Chairman, Bank of Baroda, India With healthy overseas profits, Bank of Baroda is looking to Africa as a ‘centre of growth’, according to Chairman M.D. Mallya. The state-owned bank plans to expand operations in Botswana,...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINA Sun Yusheng 28th February 2012 Vice-President, China Central Television In January, China’s state broadcaster CCTV opened a studio in Nairobi, Kenya, taking the ‘win-win’ relationship to the airwaves. CCTV Vice-President Sun Yusheng, a man with solid journalistic...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Workers safe but oil at risk 10th February 2012 Oil rows and workers caught in the crossfire force Beijing to develop political and military tools to accompany its ever-growing economic muscle Sudan and South Sudan are dragging a reluctant China into their smouldering relations at a time when both sides say the situation is on the brink of open...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Oil flows eastward 10th February 2012 Tension in Sudan and South Sudan boosts the Kenyan backers of the Lamu port and corridor projects. South Sudanese officials had already been in talks to join their...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | GABONCHINAAUSTRALIA China loses Bélinga 10th February 2012 After four years of tough renegotiations, China’s deal of the century is finally cancelled Australia's BHP Billiton has won the rights to the US$5 billion Bélinga iron ore project from China Machinery Engineering Corporation. BHP and the Gabonese Mining Ministry agreed a...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | GABONCHINAFORESTRY Illegal loggers taken to task 10th February 2012 Gabon’s government is scrutinising the activities of Chinese logging companies which have failed to respect international best practice. In an unprecedented move, the Gabonese Ministry of Water and...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | ANGOLACHINA Home, sweet Chinese home 10th February 2012 A Chinese-built, multibillion-dollar housing project near the capital will test Beijing-Luanda relations The government is under pressure to speed up construction projects to meet its promise to build a million houses in four years, ahead of September’s elections. The Nova...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | ANGOLACHINA Capitalists and communists 10th February 2012 The Beijing government and China International Fund may be separate entities but the multiple links between the two become clearer with each new project. Two of the CIF’s...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINABELGIUM Experts rate foreign aid 10th February 2012 Researchers from three continents analyse the impact of Belgian and Chinese aid projects and policies A new report from Belgian, Chinese and Congolese academics provides in-depth analysis on the contrasts between European and Chinese aid and trade policies in Congo-Kinshasa. Neither Conflict, nor...