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China-Cameroonian relations

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China and Cameroon established bilateral relations on March 26, 1971. Cameroon is an adherent to the One China Policy.

Political relations

In the 1960s, China supported armed struggle by the Union des Populations du Cameroon (UPC) against the government of Ahmadou Ahidjo. In 1970, the Ahidjo government defeated the UPC. In 1971, Cameroon established relations with China.

In the 2000s, leading politicians paid state visits to and from each country; these included Cameroonian President Paul Biya's visit for a conference in 2006 and Hu Jintao's visit to Cameroon in 2007.

Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi visited Cameroon on 12 January 2014.

Cameroon was one of 53 countries, that in June 2020, backed the Hong Kong national security law at the United Nations.

Economic relations and assistance

Since the first Forum on China Africa Cooperation in 2000, Beijing has successfully delivered $2.4 billion in development finance to Cameroon. $87 million of that total falls under the OECD-DAC criteria for Official Development Assistance. Major projects executed by the Chinese government in Cameroon include:

• Construction of the Kribi Deep Seaport funded by a FCFA 207,270 billion loan from the Exim Bank of China
• A FCFA 243 billion loan from China Exim bank for construction of the Memve'ele hydroelectric Dam in Nyabizan

• Construction of a malaria research center at Yaounde's Hospital of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics

Yearly trade topped 854 million US dollars in 2008, before dropping to 813 million US dollars in 2009 due to the global recession.

Criticism

In the 2000s, some in Cameroon considered the economic relationship to be a form of neo-colonialism; this was mainly due to a perception that Chinese traders flooded the Cameroonian market with cheap but extremely fragile manufactured goods, which stymied the development of local industries.

See also

• Foreign relations of Cameroon
• Foreign relations of China

References

1. ^ Shinn, David H.; Eisenman, Joshua (2023). China's Relations with Africa: a New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-21001-0.
2. ^ Backgrounder: Relations between China, Cameroon People's Daily Online, March 23, 2010
3. "Chinese Foreign Minister Due In Cameroon Soon". CameroonOnline.org. 2015-01-05. Archived from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
4. Lawler, Dave (2 July 2020). "The 53 countries supporting China's crackdown on Hong Kong". Axios. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
5. Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
6. Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 350. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
7. Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 289. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
8. Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 22850. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
9. China Invades Country With Cheap, Fragile Goods AllAfrica.com via postnewsline.com, 28 August 2008

Further reading

• Amin, Julius A. (2015). "Sino-Cameroon Relations: A Foreign Policy of Pragmatism". African Studies Review. 58 (3): 171–189. ISSN 0002-0206.
• Anatole, Daka; Yijie, Wang; Liang, Hu; Vanessa, Mbajon Chimi Tuatsop (2021-12-01). "China-Cameroon Agricultural Cooperation: Challenges of Agricultural Development in Cameroon". Journal of African Foreign Affairs. 8 (3): 49–72. doi:10.31920/2056-5658/2021/v8n3a3.
• Assembe-Mvondo, S; Cerutti, P O; Putzel, L; Eba'a Atyi, R (2016). "What Happens When Corporate Ownership Shifts to China? A Case Study on Rubber Production in Cameroon". The European Journal of Development Research. 28 (3): 465–478. doi:10.1057/ejdr.2015.13. ISSN 0957-8811
• Cabestan, Jean-Pierre (2015). "China–Cameroon relations: Fortunes and limits of an old political complicity". South African Journal of International Affairs. 22 (1): 67–91. doi:10.1080/10220461.2015.1014930. ISSN 1022-0461.
• De Prince Pokam, Hilaire; Hall, Jonathan (2011). "Chinese Medicine in Cameroon". China Perspectives. 3 (87): 51–58. ISSN 2070-3449.
• Khan, Sunday Aninpah; Baye, Francis Menjo (2008). "China-Africa Economic Relations: The Case of Cameroon". Report Submitted to the African Economic Research Consortium.
• Khan, Sunday A (2014). "The Emergence of China in Cameroon: Trade Impact and Evolution of Trade Configuration". In Moyo, Theresa (ed), Trade and Industrial Development in Africa: Rethinking Strategy and Policy, pp. 99-120. CODESRIA.
• Ndjio, B. (2014). "'Magic body' and 'cursed sex': Chinese sex workers as 'bitch-witches' in Cameroon". African Affairs. 113 (452): 370–386. doi:10.1093/afraf/adu042. ISSN 0001-9909.
• Nguepjouo, Diderot (2017). "The spatialisation of China's presence in Cameroon: The case of the mining sector". The Extractive Industries and Society. 4 (3): 513–524. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.06.004. ISSN 2214-790X.
• Nordtveit, Bjørn H. (2011). "An emerging donor in education and development: A case study of China in Cameroon". International Journal of Educational Development. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.01.004. ISSN 0738-0593.
• Tsounkeu, Martin (2011). Mapping Chinese development assistance in Africa: An analysis of the experiences of Cameroon. Harare: African Forum and Network on Debt and Development. ISBN 978-0-7974-4576-5.
• Vanessa, Mbajon (2019). "The Economic Cooperation between Cameroon and China: Hub on Infrastructure and Investment Projects 2007-2018". Journal of African Union Studies. 8 (3): 95–113. ISSN 2050-4292.
• Vanessa, Mbajon Chimi Tuatsop; Zou, Xiaolong (2020). "China's Foreign Aid to Cameroon: Perception from Non-Governmental Organizations 2007-2017". Journal of African Foreign Affairs. 7 (1): 49–70. ISSN 2056-564X.
• Weng, Lingfei; Margules, Chris (2022). "Challenges with formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining in Cameroon: Understanding the role of Chinese actors". The Extractive Industries and Society. 9: 101046. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2022.101046. ISSN 2214-790X.
• Weng, Lingfei; Sayer, Jeffrey A.; Xue, Lan (2017). "Will China redefine development patterns in Africa? Evidence from Cameroon". The Extractive Industries and Society. 4 (3): 506–512. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.04.004. ISSN 2214-790X.

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