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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | South Africa and the Red Dragon: A Study in Perception |
Author: | Reitsma, Hendrik J.A. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 47-67 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa China |
Subjects: | propaganda Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185568 |
Abstract: | During the past five to ten years. South Africa has become increasingly worried about China's efforts to establish itself as an important factor in African affairs. Since 1970, China has been giving foreign aid, often including military aid, to at least 27 African countries. Judging by South African reactions, each expansion of China's influence in Africa is accompanied by a corresponding rise in S.A.'s concern. This essay makes an effort to present how and why S.A. perceives China's activities as a threat to its security. It portrays the growing anxiety about an oncoming wave of communist Chinese influence, ever increasing in magnitude as it approaches. Thus the discussion starts in relatively distant Zanzibar and Mauritius, and progresses geographically to Central Africa, Southern Africa, and borders of South-West Africa and South Africa. It reaches inside S.A. itself by way of the Bantu homelands, which many South Africans perceive as potential allies of China once they have obtained full independence. Notes. |