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Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world sparked fierce debates. These debates, however, took place with very few hard facts. China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace.
This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy. Drawing on three decades of experience in China and Africa, and hundreds of interviews in Africa, China, Europe and the U.S., Brautigam shines new light on a topic of great interest.
China has ended poverty for hundreds of millions of its own citizens. Will Chinese engagement benefit Africa? Using hard data and a series of vivid stories ranging across agriculture, industry, natural resources, and governance, Brautigam's fascinating book provides an answer. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with China's rise, and what it might mean for the challenge of ending poverty in Africa.
"The Dragon's Gift looks behind the media hype. It offers surprising insights and challenges us to take a new look at Africa's development.... thoughtful and well-researched... the basis for a well-informed, interesting dialogue with Chinese actors. "-The Huffington Post
"Brautigam's lively and thoroughly documented account bucks the conventional wisdom."-Foreign Affairs
"Now comes a timely book by American academic Deborah Brautigam, an observer of Africa and Asia for three decades, which uses personal experiences combined with powerful research to puncture myths and fears that cloud understanding of one of the most important geopolitical shifts since the fall of the Berlin Wall."-The Independent
"If you want to know what China is really doing in Africa, this is the one book to read. The Dragon's Gift corrects the misinformation of both critics and defenders of Chinas role on the continent. Beijing has a long-term, well-planned strategy that goes way beyond a drive to claim minerals and oil. Yet Africans are benefiting from Chinas mixture of aid and investment; Western aid officials could learn from it. I was surprised by new facts on almost every page. Brautigam has given us a compelling, objective, and very readable account enlivened by her personal experiences and interviews."-Susan Shirk, author of China: Fragile Superpower
"The Dragon's Gift is a path-breaking book, one that was urgently needed and one which deserves to be widely noticed and read. It not only provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary relations of China with Africa, located within their proper historical context, but meticulously presents, critiques and successfully challenges the array of myths, fears, and misinformation which abound in both press reports and some academic studies of China in Africa."-Roger C. Riddell, author of Does Foreign Aid Really Work?
List of Figures | p. xiv |
Prologue: The Changing Face of Chinese Engagement in Africa | p. 1 |
China's Rise in Africa | p. 2 |
China and Africa: Mutual Benefit? | p. 3 |
Poverty and Prosperity | p. 7 |
A Different Kind of ôAidö | p. 10 |
China, Aid, and the West | p. 12 |
What is Foreign Aid? | p. 13 |
Why Do Countries Give Aid? | p. 14 |
Issues and Themes | p. 17 |
Approaches and Analysis | p. 19 |
Missionaries and Maoists: How China's Aid Moved ôRedö to ôExpertö | p. 22 |
Aid from the West | p. 26 |
Red Sun Rising | p. 29 |
From Mau Mau to Mao | p. 31 |
ôDragon in the Bushö | p. 34 |
Dazhai in Africa? | p. 37 |
Tazara: The Tan-Zam Railway | p. 40 |
Rethinking Aid | p. 41 |
Feeling the Stones: Deng Xiaoping's Experiments with Aid | p. 43 |
An ôIdeal Trading Partnerö | p. 46 |
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | p. 51 |
Aid and the Four Tigers | p. 52 |
Zhao Ziyang Goes to Africa | p. 53 |
Leather Swaps: Compensatory Trade in Africa | p. 55 |
Being Responsible to the End | p. 56 |
China, Melvin Lisk, and Okeky Agencies, Ltd. | p. 60 |
Aid as a Springboard for Investment | p. 62 |
Building Business | p. 64 |
Tripartite Cooperation | p. 65 |
ôWe Are the Worldö | p. 66 |
Checkbook Diplomacy | p. 67 |
Going Global: Foreign Aid in the Toolkit of a Rising China | p. 71 |
Battle in Seattle | p. 75 |
Deeper into Africa | p. 77 |
Value for Money | p. 78 |
Entering Europe's Backyard | p. 81 |
Zhu Rongji and the Tan-Zam Railway Redux | p. 83 |
ôKoni à Koni à Koniö | p. 85 |
Packaging Soft Power | p. 86 |
Dragon Heads | p. 87 |
Creative Destruction | p. 89 |
China-Africa Development Fund | p. 93 |
Tariff and Quota-Free Entry | p. 95 |
Overseas Zones: Going Global in Groups | p. 97 |
The First Two African Winners | p. 101 |
Crossing the Ocean by Feeling the Stones | p. 103 |
Eastern Promises: An Aid System with Chinese Characteristics | p. 105 |
A Very Brief History | p. 106 |
China's Aid Institutions | p. 107 |
China Eximbank's Concessional Loans | p. 114 |
The Development Bank That Doesn't Give Aid | p. 115 |
Acupuncture at King Harmon Road | p. 117 |
Learning from China | p. 119 |
Humanitarian Aid: After Disaster | p. 121 |
China's ôPeace Corpsö | p. 123 |
Does China Give ôCash Aidö? | p. 124 |
Dumping Debt | p. 127 |
Orient Express: How Does Chinese Aid and Engagement Work? | p. 131 |
Beijing versus Paris | p. 132 |
An Oriental Big Power | p. 136 |
China Eximbank, Huawei, and Sierratel | p. 140 |
Learning from Japan's Request-Based System | p. 141 |
The Eximbank Cycle | p. 142 |
From Aid to Profit: CNEEC Consolidates Goma | p. 143 |
China's Resource-Backed Infrastructure Loans | p. 145 |
Aid Without Strings? | p. 148 |
Tied Aid? | p. 151 |
ôHordes of Expertsö | p. 154 |
Capacity Building | p. 157 |
Apples and Lychees: How Much Aid Does China Give? | p. 162 |
Estimating China's Africa Aid | p. 168 |
One is Aid, the Other is Not | p. 173 |
Package Financing Mode | p. 174 |
Big Mistakes | p. 177 |
Is China Bigger than the World Bank? | p. 179 |
Comparing Apples and Apples | p. 182 |
Will Chinese Loans Create a New Debt Crisis? | p. 184 |
Flying Geese, Crouching Tiger: China's Changing Role in African Industrialization | p. 189 |
Challenges and Opportunities | p. 191 |
Flying Geese as Industrial Catalysts | p. 193 |
Marlboro Man | p. 195 |
Friendship Textile Factory's Rocky Road | p. 197 |
Cars, Calf, and Cows | p. 201 |
Asian Tigers and African Factories | p. 204 |
ôOriginal and Taiwanö | p. 205 |
Asian Tsunami: How a Tidal Wave Can also Be a Catalyst | p. 211 |
Leather Goes Global | p. 212 |
Textiles: A Chinese Tsunami? | p. 215 |
Drivers of Change? | p. 222 |
Catalyzing Local Industry | p. 224 |
Chinese Workers in African Factories | p. 227 |
Exporting Green Revolution: From Aid to Agribusiness | p. 232 |
Challenges and Opportunities | p. 234 |
China's Traditional Aid | p. 236 |
Doing Well by Doing Good? | p. 239 |
Wang Yibin and South-South Cooperation | p. 241 |
From Weeds to Seeds | p. 244 |
The Father of Hybrid Rice | p. 246 |
China's Agrotechnology Centers: Sustainability and Business | p. 247 |
Foreign Farmers: Chinese Settlers in Rural Africa | p. 253 |
Going Global in Agriculture | p. 255 |
Food Security: China and Africa | p. 256 |
Mega-Projects | p. 257 |
In the North, There is Only Magbass | p. 259 |
Not a Good Chew on the Bones | p. 265 |
Liu Jianjun's ôBaoding Villagesö | p. 266 |
Rogue Donor? Myths and Realities | p. 273 |
ôChinese Aid: It's All about Oil/Minerals/Resourcesö | p. 277 |
ôChina Enables Sudan to Get Away with Murder in Darfurö | p. 281 |
ôChina Hurts Efforts to Strengthen Democracy and Human Rights in Africaö | p. 284 |
ôChinese Support Kept Robert Mugabe in Power in Zimbabweö | p. 287 |
ôChina is Making Corruption Worseö | p. 292 |
ôChinese Aid and Loans are Part of a System of æUnfairÆ Subsidiesö | p. 297 |
ôChina Gains Business with Low Environmental and Social Standardsö | p. 299 |
Conclusion: Engaging China | p. 307 |
Appendices | p. 313 |
Endnotes | p. 318 |
Index | p. 385 |
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