2. How will Africa affect China as China is forced to be more self-examining in its foreign policy and in the maintenance of its supply line?
3. How will Chinese business models affect Africa as Africans attempt to build scalable companies, which are capable of being so-called Second World multinationals?
4. How is the valuation of African assets, particularly non-mining resources like agricultural products and arable land affected by the Chinese pattern of investment
5. How can African democratic leadership use the Chinese presence to create different capital market structures that work to the advantage of African economic development as opposed to the short term orientation of the Globalization 1.0 and Globalization 2.0 models?Chinese foreign policy is evolving rapidly and remains a combination of many agendas: the agendas of western-educated entrepreneurs seeking global markets, the agendas of state-owned firms seeking security of commodity supply, the agendas of regional groups and their military mirrors concerned with either Uighur nationalism, the Russian role in east Asia, the Vietnamese role in the south China Sea or the potential for a China India rivalry over Burma and Sri Lanka. From this will come one of the most significant phenomena of the 21st Century, a statement of China’s vision of a new international system in which Chinese values and aspirations are of increasing significance.<br />The new Africa is developing at a rapid pace, with Ethiopian, Sudanese, Somali, Ghanaian, Senegalese entrepreneurs among the most innovative in the new global economy. Their relationships with Arabic-speaking Africa and the Middle East and with India and China become a part of their evolving foreign policy as a new form of economic pan-Africanism becomes possible in the emerging world of Nubian Cheetahs and Timbuktu Chronicles.<br />On China and Africa, see particularly:<br />(1) The work of ALEKSANDRA GADZALA http://aleksandragadzala.blogspot.com/<br />(2) Supal Desai, a recent grad of Miami University has a very helpful blog on China in Africa at http://globalprosperity.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/china-in-africa-a-blog-walk-through-2010/. Supal also works through the HUDSON INTSITUTE that puts out an annual update on global remittances and philanthropy that is very useful: http://www.hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/Index_of_Global_Philanthropy_and_Remittances_2010.pdf <br />(3) DEBORAH BRAUTUGAM of American University keeps an excellent blog at <br />http://www.chinaafricarealstory.com/.<br />(4) Henry Hall’s blog on the many faces of China in Africa is another excellent source: http://blogs.businessday.co.za/henry/2011/07/06/pet-hates-dragons-and-biofuel/. Henry is now at the boutique consulting firm CRITICAL RESOURCE:<br />http://www.c-resource.com.<br />(5) JULIAN HEWITT, a South African living in Shanghai has a useful blog at www.julianhewitt.com. <br />For collation of articles, see http://www.chinaafricanews.com/. <br />