Explaining the rise of 'human rights' in analyses of Sino-African relations

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Title:	Explaining the rise of 'human rights' in analyses of Sino-African relations
Authors:	Breslin, Shaun Taylor, Ian
Year:	2008
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy
Volume:	35
Issue:	115
Pages:	59-71
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa China
Subjects:	foreign policy human rights international economic relations Western countries attitudes
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240802011469
Abstract:	This article seeks to unpack why it is that human rights has emerged as an issue in critical analyses of Sino-African relations. Whilst not minimizing some of the real concerns and issues about this relationship, it contextualizes the motives of much of the critique, particularly when it emanates from Western sources close to government. In short, it is asserted that material interests have long tended to dictate the capitalist West's response to the issue of human rights when it relates to China and in this regard, Sino-African ties and the attendant expressed concerns over human rights is no exception. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]