Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
Delhi’s diplomats show how its brand of democracy and business differs from Beijing’s
India’s push for more trade and access to African mineral resources in 2010 will be made with one eye focused on Beijing. Indian diplomats and businessmen are trying more than ever...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
The newish government has focused more on domestic policy but has promised to honour the previous government’s pledges to Africa
When Premier Yukio Hatoyama and the Democratic Party of
Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009 promising to focus on domestic
issues and budget cutting, African countries fe...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- TAIWAN
- AFRICA
Taipei cannot turn to its African allies to improve lagging exports, but pins its hopes instead on reaching an understanding with Beijing
Africa is almost off Taiwan’s diplomatic radar. In contrast to the
attention lavished by Chinese leaders on countries across the
continent, Taiwan’s relations with its four Afric...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
- BRIEFING
Cambodia: peacekeeping and trade, Indonesia: the spirit of Bandung, Malaysia: agribusiness and oil, North Korea: vanity projects and arms sales, Pakistan: smuggling and fraud, Singapore: business junket, South Korea: good intentions, Thailand: expanding ties, Vietnam: oily interests
As one of the less developed Asian countries, Cambodia’s diplomats do
not travel as much or have budgets as large as their Indian and
South Korean counterparts. Nonetheless, the ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
A new team of Africa policymakers in Delhi is helping companies and banks to expand their investments on the continent
The second iteration of India's Congress Party-led federal
coalition has augmented its diplomatic, strategic and commercial
thrust into Africa in pursuit of hydrocarbons, mineral...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
At the India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference in Delhi on 8 December,
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna preached the benefits
of 'a close alignment on major international issue...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
- BRIEFING
World Bank President Robert Zoellick's plan to bring
the Asian hyper-economies into the international development community
is now bearing fruit. On 3 December, Zoellick told Lon...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
China’s newly announced Africa policy is more of the same, but with a lack of African consensus that is all that could be hoped for
In comparison to the festivities of 2006, the 8-9 November Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC IV) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, was a much less hyped-up affair. It was not a hea...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
China proclaimed that it had accomplished its goals of doubling aid and meeting the eight goals established at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing in 2006, but th...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
The Sharm El-Sheik Action Plan sets out China-Africa cooperation goals for 2009 to 2012. Chinese officials emphasised that the 2006 Beijing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was mo...