November 2007 – Issue 24
China been receiving some political flak of late for not being a significant investor in the South African economy. Whether justified or not, Beijing was stung by the criticism and has been trying over the course of the past year to motivate substantive commercial ties beyond just trade between China and South Africa.
October 2007 – Issue 23
In late September, the Bi-National Commission (BNC) between South Africa and China was held in Beijing. Both Governments describe each other as “strategic partners” but both sides have struggled to define exactly what the term “strategic” means. The BNC went some way to unpack the phrase strategic partner and elevate the relationship to a higher level.
September 2007 – Issue 22
In September, the city of Dalian in northeast China hosted the World Economic Forum’s New Champions summit. The new champions are aspirant multinationals – a large number of which are from emerging market economies. High growth economies in Asia – China and India especially – are spawning globally capable firms that are able compete against multinationals from traditional markets.
August 2007 – Issue 21
The take-off of China’s economy and its rapid development since the early 1980′s would not have been possible without the Chinese diaspora. Significant repatriation of Chinese capital to the mainland economy from Hong Kong and Taiwan financed China’s economic take-off. The capital brought with it technology, employment, management expertise and also served to legitimise the Chinese Government’s reform program for the global investor community. The confidence of ethnic Chinese capital in investing in the mainland thus provided the foundation of the China’s growth success phenomenon.
July 2007 – Issue 20
In the late 1990′s, a serious debate was gripping the Southeast Asian region. It was over the impact China’s economic rise would have on the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), not too dissimilar to the debates that are raging amongst Africans and international observes of China’s commercial engagement of the African continent.
Issue 1 | March 2013
Special issue on
ELECTRIC SHADOWS:
MEDIA IN EAST ASIAN/AFRICAN RELATIONS
Bob Wekesa
The Media Framing of China’s Image in East Africa: An Exploratory Study
Jaroslaw Jura, Kaja Kaluzynska
Not Confucius, nor Kung Fu: Economy and Business as Chinese Soft Power in Africa
Yu-Shan Wu
The Political and Diplomatic Implications of Social Media: the Cases of China and South Africa
Jinghao Lu and Cobus van Staden
Lonely Nights Online: How does Social Networking Channel Chinese Migration and Business to Africa?
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