{"id":4281,"date":"2018-04-19T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/diplomacy\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2018-06-01T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:20:29","slug":"go-global-meet-the-locals-pragmatism-plunder-and-anti-chinese-populism-in-africa-by-richard-aidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/2018\/04\/go-global-meet-the-locals-pragmatism-plunder-and-anti-chinese-populism-in-africa-by-richard-aidoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Global, Meet the Locals: Pragmatism, Plunder, and Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa by Richard Aidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Dr. Richard Aidoo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Mao Zedong\u2019s Great Leap Forward to Deng Xiaoping\u2019s Opening Up, through Jiang Zemin\u2019s Going Out (also known as the Going Global strategy) to Xi Jinping\u2019s recent Chinese Dream, China has pursued diverse diplomatic engagements with African countries within these broad development visions. These engagements have evolved along with Africa\u2019s changing political and economic circumstances, as well as China\u2019s resurgence as a global economic power. Most significantly, in large parts of the developing world (including Africa), China has shifted away from its support for the struggle for ideological identity to assume geopolitical and geo-economic weight, as anti-imperialism rhetoric and support have given way to its business-is-business mantra, and noninterference diplomacy.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\"><\/a> In other words, from the late 1970s, Africa encountered Beijing\u2019s gradual shift away from an ideological proselytizer to a global economic adventurer. After the Cold War, Chinese influence in Africa has grown significantly as it has traded, invested, and constructed its way to the most relevant economic partner to African economies. Chinese capital, aid, expertise, and diplomacy have brought increasing numbers of Chinese to the continent to serve as expatriate workers as they heed the call to \u201cgo out\u201d and enhance the national ambitions and seek personal fortunes&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/files\/2018\/02\/Go-Global-Meet-the-Locals-Pragmatism-Plunder-and-Anti-Chinese-Populism-in-Africa.pdf\">Click for Full Text<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Richard Aidoo Introduction From Mao Zedong\u2019s Great Leap Forward to Deng Xiaoping\u2019s Opening Up, through Jiang Zemin\u2019s Going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3907,"featured_media":4503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,11,632,633],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-populism","category-populism-issue","tag-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}