OpEd: What Africa Can Learn From India In Dealing With China By Bishoy Sadek | Sahara Reporters It is time that Africa’s Chinese policies shifted from passive-aid-loan relations to reinvigorating local production in order to circumscribe the... READ MORE:
The recent standoff between the two Asian nuclear powers, India and China, spawned 20 dead Indian soldiers alongside a shackled prime minister in Delhi seeking to save face. As a retaliatory measure, seemingly nothing short of charade though, India’s Modi mandated banning 50 Chinese mobile applications including TikTok and WeChat.
Even more significant has been the process of interlocking the continent’s economy with that of China, consequently leading to enacting pro-Chinese policies serving the long sought-after goal of reining the world order. For example, Chinese presence in Africa’s construction market accounts for 50 percent as well as 12 percent of the industrial production and manufacturing. Chinese mega infrastructure projects include a $4.5 billion Addis Ababa to Djibouti Railway, $11 billion mega port and economic zone in Bagamoyo in Tanzania, and a $12 billion coastal railway in Nigeria.
On top of this, the booming market of smartphones is now so attractive that it allowed the Chinese company, Transsion to gain a strong foothold and dominate over the market providing cell phones of Tecno and Itel. In 2018, the company’s share in the market stood for 50 percent. Its low prices and customization of products exclusively pertained to the African customer—introducing Amharic fonts for instance—has underpinned its unmitigated success in subduing any local competition.
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