Detail The Queensway Syndicate and the Africa Trade; China International Fund   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8746 (Aug. 2011), page 15-17. Topik: Petroleum Industry; International Trade; Trade Agreements Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.67 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel On April 15th this year, Manuel Vicente, the chairman and chief executive of Sonangol, Angola's state oil firm, strode into a room decorated with extravagant flowers in central Beijing and shook hands with Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice-president and probable next general secretary of the Communist Party. Angola--along with Saudi Arabia--is China's largest oil supplier and that alone makes Vicente an important man in Beijing. But he is also a partner in a syndicate founded by well-connected Cantonese entrepreneurs who, with their African partners, have taken control of one of China's most important trade channels. Operating out of offices in Hong Kong's Queensway, the syndicate calls itself China International Fund or China Sonangol. Over the past seven years it has signed contracts worth billions of dollars for oil, minerals and diamonds from Africa. These deals are shrouded in secrecy. The syndicate is built on links forged during the cold war. Although the Queensway syndicate has sometimes been suspected of being an arm of the Chinese government, there is little evidence of that. With the syndicate, billions of dollars meant for schools, roads and hospitals have apparently ended up in private accounts. Rather than fixing Africa's lack of infrastructure, Chinese entrepreneurs and Africa's governing elites look as if they are conspiring to use the development model as a pretext for plunder. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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