China African economic relations with a focus on Nigeria: bilateral advantages
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https://doi.org/10.69974/glskalp.04.04.83Keywords:
Bilateral Advantages, China-African, Economic RelationsAbstract
Diplomatic relations between Nigeria and China for instance, was established on February 10, 1971. Relations between the two nations grew closer and stronger as a result of the international isolation and Western condemnation of Nigeria’s military regimes from 1970s to 1998. Also, conflict situations as well as competitions over natural resources have provided ideal opportunities for foreign powers such as China to intervene in the affairs of other countries like Nigeria. The Nigeria civil war, 1967 to 1970, offered such opportunity to foreign powers to intervene in the national affairs of other countries. In this case, because of Nigeria’s might vis-à-vis Biafra’s military weakness in terms of armaments, the latter was compelled to rely on world powers for arms and ammunition. Secondly, the foreign powers were involved because of ideological conflict as evident in the support China gave to Biafra because the Soviet Union was backing the federal military government (Okpeh, 2019).
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