As China takes on a global role, will southern Africa benefit?
China and southern Africa have received growing international attention in recent years, but for very different reasons.
Africa-China Relations Require Reality Check
China is a rising, rapidly modernising power. Its manufacturing prowess grows daily; its overseas footprint measured through population and investment expansion abroad is increasingly felt.
It’s Time to Stop Blaming China Alone Over Textiles
CHINA-bashing in SA is intensifying. It is centred on clothing and textile imports. But diminishing returns are setting in; the blame game is becoming tiresome.
More sour than sweet in SA-China trade relations
HAILED as an overwhelming success, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to South Africa raises profound questions about bilateral engagement and how we will deal with global economic and trade dynamics in the coming decade.
China-bashing no basis for policy
WHILE I have never worked in the fashion industry, I do know that South African fashions lag European and American.
SA must take Chinese bull by the horns or get kicked
China has emerged as a driver of change, globally. And 2007 will be no different from recent years; if anything, existing pressures will intensify.
Engaging Asia’s Biggest Tiger
China’s rise is inevitable. As long as it remains an outward-oriented economy, China will continue to drive restructuring processes in manufacturing all over the world, particularly in countries that have until now enjoyed the advantages of relatively cheap labour.
In search of a development agenda
The past five years have seen the European Union (EU) and its former colonies in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group locking horns in potentially far-reaching trade and develo-ment negotiations.
Enter the Dragon – Towards a Free Trade Agreement Between China and the Southern African Customs Union
South Africa and its partners in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) – Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland – are considering negotiating a free trade agreement with China.
Africa Can Decide Whether China is Threat or Boon
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