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Bilateral relations
China and
Cameroon established
bilateral relations on March 26, 1971.
[1] : 347 Cameroon is an adherent to the
One China Policy .
[2]
Political relations
Embassy of Cameroon in China
In the 1960s, China supported armed struggle by the
Union des Populations du Cameroon (UPC) against the government of
Ahmadou Ahidjo .
[1] : 23 In 1970, the Ahidjo government defeated the UPC.
[1] : 23 In 1971, Cameroon established relations with China.
[1] : 23
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.
[2]
Chinese Foreign Minister,
Wang Yi visited Cameroon on 12 January 2014.
[3]
Cameroon was one of 53 countries, that in June 2020, backed the
Hong Kong national security law at the
United Nations .
[4]
Economic development
Since the first
Forum on China Africa Cooperation in 2000, Beijing has successfully delivered $2.4 billion in development finance to Cameroon.
[5] $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
[6]
A FCFA 243 billion loan from China Exim bank for construction of the Memve'ele hydroelectric Dam in Nyabizan
[7]
Memve'ele hydroelectric Dam Project
Construction of a malaria research center at Yaounde's Hospital of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics
[8]
Yearly trade topped 854 million US dollars in 2008, before dropping to 813 million US dollars in 2009 due to the global recession.
[2]
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.
[9]
References
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Shinn, David H. ; Eisenman, Joshua (2023). China's Relations with Africa: a New Era of Strategic Engagement . New York:
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ISBN
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Backgrounder: Relations between China, Cameroon People's Daily Online, March 23, 2010
^
"Chinese Foreign Minister Due In Cameroon Soon" . CameroonOnline.org . 2015-01-05. Archived from
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^ Lawler, Dave (2 July 2020).
"The 53 countries supporting China's crackdown on Hong Kong" .
Axios . Retrieved 3 July 2020 .
^ Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013.
Chinaâs Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection [
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Chinaâs Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 350 . CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
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Chinaâs Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 289 . CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
^ Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013.
Chinaâs Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Project 22850 . CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
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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): 171â189.
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): 49â72.
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): 465â478.
doi :
10.1057/ejdr.2015.13 .
ISSN
0957-8811
Cabestan, Jean-Pierre (2015).
"ChinaâCameroon relations: Fortunes and limits of an old political complicity" . South African Journal of International Affairs . 22 (1): 67â91.
doi :
10.1080/10220461.2015.1014930 .
ISSN
1022-0461 .
De Prince Pokam, Hilaire; Hall, Jonathan (2011).
"Chinese Medicine in Cameroon" . China Perspectives. 3 (87): 51â58.
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): 370â386.
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): 513â524.
doi :
10.1016/j.exis.2017.06.004 .
ISSN
2214-790X .
Nordtveit, BjĂžrn H. (2011).
"An emerging donor in education and development: A case study of China in Cameroon" . International Journal of Educational Development . 31 (2): 99â108.
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): 95â113.
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): 49â70.
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): 506â512.
doi :
10.1016/j.exis.2017.04.004 .
ISSN
2214-790X .
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