Stosunki międzynarodowe Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej z państwami Afryki w erze Xi Jipinga – dynamika, istota, trendy
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People’s Republic of China (PRC), China–Africa, Xi Jinping, international order, the West, US–China rivalryAbstract
CHINA–AFRICA RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF XI JINPING: THEIR DYNAMICS, ESSENCE, AND TRENDS
The research objective of this article is to highlight the evolution of China’s policy, under Xi Jinping’s rule, towards Africa during the emergence of the new global international order, which divided the world in to the Western and non-Western worlds, as well as to illustrate the dynamics, scale, and scope of this policy. The research hypothesis is that China’s relations with Africa have intensified over the past 25 years. The hypothesis is of both the objective and subjective dimensions. In addition to the economic and political motivations that determined China’s policy towards the African continent in 2000-2016, geostrategic conditions, post-2016, related to the redefinition of the current international order should also be taken into account. Beijing and Xi Jinping perceive Africa, as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have demonstrated, as an important element in building an international order alternative to that of the West’s.
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