China–Ivory Coast relations explained

China–Ivory Coast relations refer to the foreign relations between China and Ivory Coast. They established the diplomatic relations on March 2, 1983.[1]

Chinese development finance to Cote D'Ivoire

From 2000 to 2011, there are approximately 34 Chinese official development finance projects identified in Côte d'Ivoire through various media reports.[2] These projects range from a $114 million loan from Export-Import Bank of China at two-percent interest over 20 years to finance a motorway construction project linking Abidjan to Grand-Bassam,[3] to an 18 million EUR debt relief in 2007.[4]

According to Xavier Aurégan, PhD at the French Institute of Geopolitics,[5] from 1983 to 2013, there are approximately 174 Chinese official development finance projects in Côte d'Ivoire.[6] Of these 174 official development finance projects, 112 are approximately 12 billion euros. The most expensive project is the urban center in Abidjan (8.9 billion euros).In addition, infrastructure accounted for 86% of the Chinese public assistance.The majority of Chinese aid is granted during the Ivorian political crisis between 2002 and 2010. Under Laurent Gbagbo, 69% of aid is thus assigned.[7]

In Abidjan, Chinese nationals are about 2500. They mainly occur in the trade, Adjamé, or restoration, Cocody. They created about 100 companies.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shinn, David H. . China's Relations with Africa: a New Era of Strategic Engagement . Eisenman . Joshua . 2023 . . 978-0-231-21001-0 . New York . David H. Shinn.
  2. 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.https://web.archive.org/web/20130713135832/http://china.aiddata.org/
  3. Strange, Parks, Tierney, Fuchs, Dreher, and Ramachandran, China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection.http://aiddatachina.org/projects/865
  4. Strange, Parks, Tierney, Fuchs, Dreher, and Ramachandran, China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection.http://aiddatachina.org/projects/20244
  5. Web site: WWW.auregan.pro. 2016.
  6. Aurégan, Xavier, La Chine, d’un État honni à incontournable en Côte d’Ivoire. In : Croisements, N° 3, Séoul, 2013, pp. 86-111.http://croisements-revue.org/doc/Croisements3Extrait4-6.pdf
  7. Aurégan, Xavier, La Chine en Côte d’Ivoire : le double jeu, Diploweb, avril 2011.http://www.diploweb.com/La-Chine-en-Cote-d-Ivoire-le.html
  8. Aurégan, Xavier, Représentations, « intégrations » et organisations : les enjeux des dynamiques migratoires chinoises à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).http://www.cairn.info/revue-monde-chinois-2013-1-p-55.htm. Aurégan, Xavier, Les « communautés » chinoises en Côte d’Ivoire : analyse comparative de l’hétérogénéité des acteurs, de leur intégration et des territoires en Afrique de l’Ouest, Working Paper, Institut Français de Géopolitique, février 2012, 26 p. http://geopolitique.hypotheses.org/122

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