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Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): geoeconomics, governance, and embedding ‘creative involvement’

Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): geoeconomics, governance, and... How China can promote its overseas commercial and strategic interests and protect its citizens and investments while continuing to adhere to a longstanding commitment to non-interference is a subject of intense policy and academic debate. A notion of ‘creative involvement’ has been developed to specify an increasingly flexible and pragmatic approach to projecting and managing China’s expanding global interests. In this research a close reading of the Declarations and Action Plans of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) over the period 2000–21 reveals specific degrees and types of embedding of Chinese involvement in Africa’s complex political economic landscape and an evolving reorientation of development cooperation policy practices shaped by growing concerns with African economic policy and local governance issues. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Area Development and Policy Taylor & Francis

Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): geoeconomics, governance, and embedding ‘creative involvement’

Cheng, Han; Mawdsley, Emma; Liu, Weidong
Area Development and Policy , Volume 8 (1): 24 – Jan 2, 2023
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Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): geoeconomics, governance, and embedding ‘creative involvement’

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How China can promote its overseas commercial and strategic interests and protect its citizens and investments while continuing to adhere to a longstanding commitment to non-interference is a subject of intense policy and academic debate. A notion of ‘creative involvement’ has been developed to specify an increasingly flexible and pragmatic approach to projecting and managing China’s expanding global interests. In this research a close reading of the Declarations and Action...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 Regional Studies Association
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2379-2957
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2379-2949
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10.1080/23792949.2022.2092018
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Abstract

How China can promote its overseas commercial and strategic interests and protect its citizens and investments while continuing to adhere to a longstanding commitment to non-interference is a subject of intense policy and academic debate. A notion of ‘creative involvement’ has been developed to specify an increasingly flexible and pragmatic approach to projecting and managing China’s expanding global interests. In this research a close reading of the Declarations and Action Plans of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) over the period 2000–21 reveals specific degrees and types of embedding of Chinese involvement in Africa’s complex political economic landscape and an evolving reorientation of development cooperation policy practices shaped by growing concerns with African economic policy and local governance issues.

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Area Development and Policy – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2023

Keywords: Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC); China–Africa relations; South–South cooperation; international development; Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); 中非合作论坛; 中非关系; 南南合作; 国际发展; ‘一带一路’倡议; FOCAC; relaciones entre China y África; cooperación Sur–Sur; desarrollo internacional; Nueva Ruta de la Seda; FOCAC; китайско-африканские отношения; сотрудничество Юг-Юг; международное развитие; инициатива ‘Один Пояс – один Путь’

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