INTERVIEW – The researcher analyzes the reasons for the slowdown in economic relations between the “factory of the world” and the continent after two decades of extreme growth.
Xavier Aurégan is the author of China, African power (Armand Colin).
LE FIGARO. – The African debt to China Can it explain the slowdown in economic relations? ?
XAVIER AURÉGAN. – Debt and the difficulties in repaying it are one reason, but there are other factors. I am thinking of an analytical step back on the part of African elites. The time of credulity and naivety is behind them: since the Covid crisis which caused a general slowdown, Africans look twice before signing an agreement with China or a Chinese actor.
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The text is analyzed, weighed. Above all, the proposal is put in competition with those of other partners, whether India, Turkey or another. The formula of the “win-win” deal no longer works. African leaders have understood that they have a big winner: China. As well as less big winners, or even losers: the leaders…
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