Salam al Rabadi \ researcher and author in international
relations
spain \ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Chapter of globalization is
taking place in Africa writes this chapter Chinese Who's in various African
countries.The Chinese investment
has expanded its business scope and crept into the daily lives of the African
continent. The strategy of Chinese companies does not depart from the strategic
objectives adopted by the Chinese state.Where the government is working to
encourage companies to secure vital resources for the economy. The Chinese state owns or manages most of
the Chinese companies operating in Africa and these investments reflect the
foresight of the Chinese state to achieve long-term objectives .The volume of
trade between China and Africa increased at a pace too high and the number of
Chinese companies on the African land nearly 900 companies, and the number of
Chinese in Africa nearly one million people the largest foreign community in
Africa. As the work of Chinese companies do not go out and strategy framework
for the political choice of the Chinese government which is based on creating
transnational corporations can make China a global economic power.
So Chinese influence in Africa raises
questions and concerns. Thus, there is a global
competition between the U.S.A and China in Africa and there is
also a European concern
because of the increased Chinese economic power in
Africa. The Chinese
influence in Africa raises questions and concerns when the Europeans as
the Chinese institutions and companies now possess the qualifications and privileges to compete with American and European companies in several areas.The European Union has called on China to tripartite
dialogue with Africa to serve their common interests, to bypass
the traditional view and avoid confrontation in the areas of development and exploitation
of raw resources in the African
continent. To this end held in Brussels in the summer of 2007 a conference organized by the European Commission under the heading:"partners and rivals"than not be competition
between Chinese and European companies at the expense of Africa.
Chinese investment in Africa within the strategic vision of the Chinese state. These investments
can be considered a form of conflict and competition in international relations. Perhaps the
influence of Chinese investment in the
African continent is a geopolitical
earthquake, and the completion of the achievements of globalization
tipped the scales global economic and political.
However, it remains a legitimate question about the investments made by Chinese
companies ?
Is this investment
included in the framework of cooperation and exchange of interests or
intervention under control?When Chinese President vows to raise the value of
Chinese investments in Latin America to nearly 100 billion dollars over the
next ten years how
can we classify these investments?Is intervention in the economic framework or
take political dimensions ?
How can we look at the
reactions of American and European influence on the growth of Chinese
investment in Africa? What are its dimensions ? How can we approach ?
One of the main
problems that we can talk about :
open doors of many
countries in front of Chinese investment on terms easier than going with
Western companies: where can tab?Cooperation in the box? Or in the
control box?And How can we deal
with the dialectic ignore the intellectual and cultural elites and human rights
in the countries of the developing world the issue of violations and abuses of
Chinese companies principles of human rights in Africa?
Are we in front of an ideological approach? or there must be a scientific approach, and clear criteria based
on interest in the human being
and sustainable development when
evaluating any investment? whether it is the source of this investment company from developing
countries or companies from
developed countries? And whether the company is
owned by the State or owned by
the private sector?
In principle,we can not ignore the
political and strategic dimension in European and American criticism for
investment by Chinese companies in Africa. If the Europeans try to criticize
Chinese investment in Africa from the angle of the omission of these
investments to the issues of corruption and how to
combat it?And how can support sustainable development?
But these questions should
not blind our eyes how the concept of sustainable development acquire the
"rubber miraculous"? Where can contain
all the problems afflicting mankind and the earth?Examples include : threats to
the environment from pollution and desertification .Or manifestations of misery
that was and still is the human companion poverty and epidemics and
malnutrition .....
This fact opens the
door to put the problematic concept of sustainable development and exploitation
by the advanced industrial countries ????
