PLIR 4999 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: China Dragon, Peter Hessler, Mineral Processing

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-International Relations
• Course: PLIR 4999
• Professor: Womack Brantly

Document Summary

China"s engagement in africa profitable long-term engagement. China"s decision in providing foreign aid in africa boosting production. China strategies trade arrangement with japan (more tech), studied japan and used it on. Millennial development goals bigger picture impact of sino-african relations. Provided a lot of direct quote of chinese workers but did not quote the african workers. Response to aid china slowly acquiring more influence in africa. Individual = prospects for gains for themselves, also much shorter synapse. What works in china might not work in nigeria ex. Electrical problems (china is certainly had electrical shortages too) Success attracts lots of other companies into business and out-compete you. Infrastructure infra and manufacture projects in congo and other places. You have a chance of beating the resource course funding schools, funding roads, funding mineral processing factories. Philippines knows how to write a good aid project problem : more bureaucratic fluency. China doesn"t have preference for aid to other poor countries.