 | ISBN: 978-1-58826-636-1 $55.00 | |
| 2008/227 pages | ||
Taylor argues that Beijing is using Africa not only as a source of needed raw materials and potential new markets, but also to bolster its own position on the international stage. After tracing the history of Sino-African relations, he addresses key current issues: What will be the long-term consequences, for example, of China’s successes in securing access to the continent’s oil? How will cheap Chinese imports affect Africa’s manufacturing base? What has been the impact of China’s arms sales to Africa?
Based on extensive field research in both China and across Africa, China’s New Role in Africa is a major contribution to illuminating a little-known, but increasingly important, relationship.
“In this important new book, Ian Taylor explores the complexity of increasingly diverse, as well as increasingly important, China-Africa encounters.”—Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick