The National Bureau of Asian Research published in June 2012 a report titled "A New Great Game? Situating Africa in China's Strategic Thinking" by Nadege Rolland.
The author concludes that Chinese strategists seem to envisage Africa as an essential piece in an escalating geostrategic contest for global influence between China and the U.S.-led West. Beijing's emerging strategy aims at making the continent fit into a new subsystem comprising much of the global South that China aspires to dominate. China aims to persuade African countries to adopt aspects of its political and economic system and is preparing to export its model to Africa and perhaps to other parts of the developing world as well.
