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The rise of china and India in Africa; From an economic perspective
On 1983, Prime Zhao Ziyang set out eight principles for the Sino-
Africa economic-technical co-operations, which were interested in;

equal opportunity, common benefit, pursuing practical consequenc-
es, adopting a diversity of means, and looking for common growth.

As a result, through the time of 1980s, china supported more number
of projects in Africa, especially in the field of infrastructure, and the

number of projects were almost more than two hundred projects. In
total, the number of projects in Africa and West Asia exceeded 2,600,

amounting to $5.6 billion and employing a number of eight thousand
Chinese laborers .
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With economic liberalization and the process of multi-polarity
democracy in the 1990s, China announced about two new policies

on overseas area , which goal was to promote new skilled Chinese
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corporations to play a part in abroad trade and industry collaboration

and practical support projects.

Similar to China, and in the post –cold-war era, India’s foreign
policy was became more pragmatic and has been associated with the

values of non-alignment and South–South collaboration at the same
time. Reacting in opposition to the one-sided nature of the post-cold-

war global system, India has pressed for a many-sided world system.
And, just as in the past, dealings with south countries and Africa are

at present based on common joint interests in struggle against the
inequity of the international system.

India’s policy-makers realized the value of a foreign policy that

resonated with its profitable wills, and the opening policy to abroad

investment also meant to enhance external dealings that could assist
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