Africa and China Moving Towards Greater Economic Integration: Chinese Scholar

Vehicles and equipment bound for Tanzania being loaded at Yantai Port, Shandong Province in China in October. Photo by Tang Ke / CFoto / CFOTO via AFP.

Following the go-go 2010s, when every week seemed to bring a new announcement of a headlining Chinese project in Africa, the 2020s are frequently framed as an era of cooling economic relations.

This is a misreading, argues Tang Xiaoyang, the Chair and Professor at the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University, and a prominent Chinese expert on Africa.

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