Non-Interference 2.0: China’s Evolving Foreign Policy towards a Changing Africa

Richard Aidoo () and Steve Hess ()

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell, 2015, vol. 44, issue 1, 107-139

Abstract: China’s non-interference policy has come under scrutiny in regards to its growing and deepening relations in Africa. The policy has come to represent an about-face from conditional assistance and investment associated with the Washington Consensus. Although often well received in much of the global South, this policy has drawn a lot of criticism from the West and others. These commentators have perceived non-interference as an opportunistic and often inconsistent instrument for enabling China’s increasing access to African resources and markets. This article suggests that despite some consistent support for the rhetoric of non-interference, China’s implementation of the policy has become increasingly varied and context-ualized in reaction to Africa’s ever-more diversified political and economic landscape since the early 2000s.

Keywords: China; Africa; non-interference policy; politics; economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04
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