Dancing with the Dragon: Africa's Courtship with China
Dancing with the Dragon: Africa's Courtship with China
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与龙共舞：非洲与中国的求爱
DOI：
10.2979/gso.2008.2.2.171
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2008
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P. Zeleza
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P. Zeleza
本文探讨了非洲和中国之间不断深化的经济关系，表现在贸易和投资的爆炸性增长。这是一种不容忽视的关系，对非洲和中国的政策制定者和人民都有很大的利益。它引起了西方国家首都和媒体的关注，并成为迅速扩大的文学主题。本文探讨了这种关系的三种主要方式：帝国主义，全球化和团结，并认为我们需要发展一种更具历史意义的方法，超越这些观点，认识到非洲与中国古老交往的复杂性，矛盾和不断变化的动态。文章认为，与所有大国一样，中国在与非洲国家打交道时寻求促进自己的利益，因此，使这种关系对非洲有利的责任在于非洲政府和民间社会共同努力，保护自己的利益。
This paper examines the deepening economic relationship between Africa and China as manifested in the explosive growth in trade and investment. Celebrated by some and condemned by others, it is a relationship that cannot be ignored and is of great interest to African and Chinese policy makers and peoples. It has raised concerns in Western capitals and the media and is the subject of a rapidly expanding literature. The paper explores the three dominant ways in which the relationship tends to be framed: in terms of imperialism, globalization, and solidarity and argues that we need to develop a more historically informed approach that transcends these perspectives and recognizes the complexities, contradictions and changing dynamics of Africa's age-old engagements with China. The paper argues that like all major powers, China seeks to promote its own interests in dealings with African countries; hence the responsibility to make the relationship beneficial for Africa lies with African governments and civil societies working in concert also to protect their own interests.