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OPTIMISTIC ROLE OF CHINA IN PEACE BUILDING IN AFRICA A CASE STUDY OF DARFUR

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).02      10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).02      Published : Dec 2021

Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur

    The developing Sino-African relations are perceived by some foreign affairs academia as a measure of the basis on which its larger strategic drives are fabricated. Chinese interests on the continent not merely focus on economic benefits however also includes governmental, security, and sociopolitical interests. This fast-developing correlation offers opportunities besides challenges to both China and Africa. China’s trade, venture, and infrastructural development support are primarily re-modeling African markets. However, Chinese growth posturing retreat dilemma to international power balance.Particularly, the US perceives the African continent as ravenous for their investments, expertise, and peace, and cordiality.Moreover, argumentative concerns are distressing these relations. Africa remained a fatality of Western colonialism in addition to "strings-attached" methodologies. Hence, carried around using “quasi-state” players, thus, frequently condemned through majority African leadership to interfere with the local affairs within a few African states besides also offering reliant over foreign-aid support. This article endeavors to use the qualitative nature of the study based on secondary sources.Therefore, the descriptive-analytical technique is used to conclude a critical study of Sino-African relations besides conflict management in Africa, making a case study of Sudan. This paper also attempts to examine that how China’s investments on the continent are donating to issues by observing transmission of Chinese weapons towards Sudan underbid of securing petroleum to guard its domestic safeties.

    Africa, China, Darfur, Quasi-state, Balance of Power, Conflict Management
    (1) Nazim Rahim
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chitral, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Ilyas Ansari
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science % IR, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
    (3) Suhrab Ahmad
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Chitral, KP, Pakistan.
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    APA : Rahim, N., Ansari, I., & Ahmad, S. (2021). Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV(IV), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).02
    CHICAGO : Rahim, Nazim, Ilyas Ansari, and Suhrab Ahmad. 2021. "Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (IV): 13-20 doi: 10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).02
    HARVARD : RAHIM, N., ANSARI, I. & AHMAD, S. 2021. Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV, 13-20.
    MHRA : Rahim, Nazim, Ilyas Ansari, and Suhrab Ahmad. 2021. "Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV: 13-20
    MLA : Rahim, Nazim, Ilyas Ansari, and Suhrab Ahmad. "Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV.IV (2021): 13-20 Print.
    OXFORD : Rahim, Nazim, Ansari, Ilyas, and Ahmad, Suhrab (2021), "Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur", Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (IV), 13-20
    TURABIAN : Rahim, Nazim, Ilyas Ansari, and Suhrab Ahmad. "Optimistic Role of China in Peace Building in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur." Global Foreign Policies Review IV, no. IV (2021): 13-20. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).02