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5 - China's & Traditional Donors: Convergence or divergence?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2013

Kenneth King
Kenneth King
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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It has been said that people's brains are conditioned by the communities they are living in; therefore only people looking on from outside can give really constructive ideas for the former society. I believe that Professor King is one person who possesses significant insights and who looks in on China from outside. His suggestions will be by definition very valuable in helping us lay a solid foundation for the 5th Ministerial FOCAC Conference. It would be great if the Professor can let us know how does he view the implementation of previous conferences? How does the future of China-Africa cooperation look from his perspective? Should China continuously formulate and announce a new set of 8 measures at the 5th Ministerial Conference? If it should do so, what would be an appropriate magnitude of the new 8 measures? And to which areas should we give more priority? (From a Commercial Councillor's Office in Africa to KK, 20. 12.11)

The view of many traditional donors towards China's role as a development partner in Africa was that it was ‘unclubbable’; it did not want to be part of the donor club or the very large number of donor working groups, or donor task forces found at the country level in Africa. This was thought to be because China did not want to present itself to Africa as a donor.

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China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa
The Case of Education and Training
 , pp. 144 - 171
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2013

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