South African foreign policy and China: converging visions, competing interests, contested identities
Journal: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Year: 2016

South Africa’s burgeoning relationship with China exposes the increasing&#13;\ncomplexities of its post-apartheid international relations. On one hand&#13;\nbilateral relations have deepened since 1998, due to the increasing&#13;\ncomplementarities with South Africa’s foreign policy priorities that&#13;\nemphasise developmental pragmatism and a Southward orientation&#13;\nwithin the broader African context. On the other hand this relationship&#13;\nemphasises the deeper schisms within South Afri