Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 | LIBYACHINA Castles made of sand 13th July 2011 Instability in the Middle East and North Africa has put pressure on China’s non-interference principle, pushing it into more pragmatic territory Beijing signalled the biggest change in its Africa policy when it decided to accept the National Transitional Council as a negotiating partner in the peace talks between Colonel...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 8 | LIBYATURKEY Strategic depth charge 9th June 2011 On 23 May Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gül and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held talks in Ankara with the Chairman of the Libyan Interim Transitional...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | LIBYAASIA Beijing and Delhi change tack 31st March 2011 The crisis in Libya is exposing foreign policy contradictions across the world – including among Asia’s rising powers China and India, like many Western and African states, have torn up their diplomatic rule books as the crisis in Libya moves from revolution to civil war. First...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | LIBYAASIA Solid foundations 31st March 2011 Chinese traders in Tripoli are watching closely to see how the Western-led attacks on Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime will affect business in the short term. South Korean...
Vol 51 No 24 | LIBYA Oil, money and infighting 3rd December 2010 As Tripoli hosted a summit for Africa and Europe, the Libyan leader berated his European counterparts for lack of attention to Africa, although his own commitment to his...
Vol 51 No 24 | LIBYA Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau 3rd December 2010 With its control of state revenue - amounting to over US$400 billion – for the past four decades, the Gadaffi family has become a sprawling, opaque and sometimes...
Vol 51 No 23 | LIBYA Paternal censorship 19th November 2010 Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has ordered the release of 20 journalists employed by his son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi’s publishing company, Al Ghad Media Services, who were...
Vol 51 No 18 | LIBYAITALY The Colonel’s Roman holiday 10th September 2010 Libyan President Moammar el Gadaffi flew into Rome on 29 August for the second anniversary of his ‘friendship treaty’ with Italy, accompanied by 30 berber horses and a...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | LIBYASOUTH KOREA Gadaffi guns for Seoul's spy 17th August 2010 An espionage row is holding up progress on a US$438 million project. An espionage row in which Libya expelled one of Seoul’s secret agents is holding up progress on a US$438 million project signed on 6 August between South Korea’s...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | LIBYA Musa Kusa 15th December 2009 Foreign Affairs Minister, Libya Libya's Foreign Minister Musa Kusa was among the first of a wave of African ministers who are loudly and publicly criticising China's activities. In a 10 November interview with the London-based...