China–Africa Trade Patterns: causes and consequences
China–Africa Trade Patterns: causes and consequences
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DOI：
10.1080/10670564.2012.684964
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发表时间：
2012-07
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Joshua Eisenman
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作者：
Joshua Eisenman
中国与非洲国家的贸易模式使北京成为非洲新的反华言论的焦点。与毛泽东时代不同的是，当时中国的贸易政策服务于其领导人的政治目标，现在他们的目标是进入市场，作为中国更大的国内发展战略的一部分。中国的国有企业可以通过影响流量的市场外决策来引导中非贸易，但最终，北京与非洲直接贸易的能力受到市场力量的限制。尽管有人认为中非贸易是由共同的非自由主义驱动的，但作者认为，决定中非贸易的主要因素是五个相互关联的因素：中国在劳动密集型和资本密集型生产方面的比较优势，非洲丰富的自然资源禀赋，中国经济的快速增长，中国对国内和非洲基础设施建设的重视，中国对非洲经济发展的贡献。以及中国航运业和轻工业的规模经济。
China's trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new anti-Chinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China's trade policies served its leaders' political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China's larger domestic development strategy. China's state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions that influence flows, yet, ultimately, Beijing's ability to direct trade with Africa is constrained by market forces. Despite suggestions that shared illiberalism drives China–Africa trade the author concludes that five interrelated causal factors overwhelmingly determine China–Africa trade: China's comparative advantage in labor-intensive and capital-intensive production; Africa's abundant natural resource endowments; China's rapid economic growth; China's emphasis on infrastructure building at home and in Africa; and the emergence of economies of scale in China's shipping and light manufacturing sectors.