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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
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Acknowledgements

This session of this free course was written by Giles Mohan, Craig Walker and Janet Liao. It was first published in July 2019.

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Activity 1: Moreira, S. (2013) ‘Learning from failure: China’s overseas oil investments’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 131–65.

Images

Figure 1: European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS);

Figure 2: © 2019 OMICS International- Open Access Publisher;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Images in Timeline for China and Sudan oil

Figure 1: Concorp Petroleum Limited

Figure 2: taken from: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ africaatlse/ 2012/ 07/ 04/ south-sudans-ultimate-goal-should-be-to-phase-out-its-petroleum-industry/

Figure 3: Khartoum Refinery Limited

Figure 4: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_fields_and_infrastructure_in_Sudan_and_South_Sudan.png; source: https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis.cfm?iso=SDN;U.S. Energy Information Administration

Figure 5: taken from: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2012/07/04/south-sudans-ultimate-goal-should-be-to-phase-out-its-petroleum-industry/ Dr. Jason Hickel, LSE

Figure 6: ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images

Figure 7: taken from: https://www.voltairenet.org

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