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In the burgeoning field of research onChina inAfrica, analyses generally fall on a continuum between two divergent positions.With reference to Angola, this paper reviews perspectives on China inAfrica as well as themain features of Chinese engagement with the continent in order to interrogate the ‘divide’ between the ‘China threat’ and ‘peaceful rise’ positions. The goal is not to take a centrist position, but rather to suggest that China represents for Africa both a new imperialism and a new model of development. While differentiating between the new Euro-American and Chinese imperialisms, China’s new engagement, exemplified by its relationship with Angola, is a project of recolonisation and appropriation of economic surplus. The Chinese variety of imperialism, however, offers African states a compromise to their elite and to their citizens that has heretofore been missing from post-colonial Euro-American imperialism – the prospect of sustained economic growth and improvement to the quality of everyday life.
Author(s): Ovadia JS
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Review of African Political Economy
Year: 2013
Volume: 40
Issue: 136
Pages: 233-250
Print publication date: 26/06/2013
ISSN (print): 0305-6244
ISSN (electronic): 1740-1720
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.794724
DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.794724
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