From market access to strategic openness: The new China–Africa business relationship – Institute of Development Studies

China’s zero-tariff offer to 53 African countries looks, at first sight, like a trade story. It is more than that. It marks a wider shift in China-Africa business relations: from market access to strategic openness. Tariff-free access opens an important door, but it does not by itself create exports, build industries or shift ba rgaining power.
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