Beijing Envy

Joshua Kurlantzick

• BuyChina and Africa: Engagement and Compromise by Ian Taylor
  Routledge, 233 pp, £75.00, August 2006, ISBN 0 415 39740 5
• China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century edited by Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell
  Sharpe, 232 pp, $29.95, April 2007, ISBN 978 0 7656 1713 2
• China’s African Policy
  Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, January 2006, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
• China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States by Bates Gill, Chin-hao Huang and J. Stephen Morrison
  Centre for Strategic and International Studies, February 2007, ISBN 978 0 00 000097 2
• Friends and Interests: China’s Distinctive Links with Africa by Barry Sautman
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April 2006, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
• African Perspectives on China in Africa edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks
  Fahamu, 174 pp, £11.95, March 2007, ISBN 978 0 9545637 3 8
• BuyAfrica’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier by Harry Broadman
  World Bank, 391 pp, $20.00, November 2006, ISBN 0 8213 6835 4

Earlier this year, the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, went on a 12-day tour of Africa. In Zambia he announced that China would build an economic co-operation zone in the country that would attract $800 million of investment. Zambia’s former president, Kenneth Kaunda, received him personally, and the Chinese president delivered his usual speech: ‘China is happy to have Zambia as a good friend, good partner, and a good brother.’