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AbstractChina's rapidly expanding role in Africa as an energy and resource extractor reveals much of the dynamics and complexities of its growing ties with the continent. Rather than studying the subject in the framework of bilateral interactions, as most existing literature does, this article explores the impact of China's domestic development process on the behaviour of Chinese foreign policy and business operations in Africa. Based on the author's extensive field research in Africa and China, the article argues that much of what the Chinese government, Chinese companies and individual entrepreneurs are doing today in Africa is an externalization of China's own modernization experiences in the past three decades. China's interactions with African countries are reflective of its own development contradictions, and major patterns of Chinese behavour in Africa can be attributed to complex motivations and objectives of the actors involved.

The article reviews the rise of China as a global power, the implications for Canada, evaluates the critical issues in the Canadian and Chinese relationship, and also offers policy recommendations for a nonpartisan China policy under the Stephen Harper government. First, the author examines the rise of China and the implications for Canada, reviewing economic, sociological, environmental, demographical, and statistical data and projections; the acceptance of China by Canada as an emerging global power; and considering the strains on natural resources by either demand or pollution. Then the article discusses critical issues of the relation between both nations; focusing on the withering notion of a strategic partnership, human rights issues versus trade and development, and further issues and irritants burring the relationship as reported by the Canadian security services. The author then poses several policy recommendations to the Harper government; keeping in mind that Ottawa does not possess any direct channels of communication to the upper echelon in Beijing; and the core issues, including the preparation of Prime Minister Harper's visit to China, which leaves many questions unanswered. The author also suggests that Canada needs to implement a clear policy regarding China, which is nonpartisan by nature, reflecting hints toward more transparency, and political and economic transitioning. Adapted from the source document.

Sino-Japanese relations entered a new phase when Japan's new prime minister, Abe Shinzo decided to make his first foreign trip to China, thus breaking the ice on the bilateral summit that was suspended for five years under the leadership of Koizumi Junichiro. This article examines the domestic and international context of such a shift in Japan's China policy during Koizumi's final year in office and Abe's initial tenure from the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2007. It argues that Abe, although making a decisive shift from Koizumi's confrontational approach with China, has been pursuing a "double movement" strategy with China: positive engagement with Beijing for shared interests and active preparation for containing the rise of China. It offers three recommendations for strengthening the positive momentum and suppressing the negative elements in managing the Japan-China relationship. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)