The Stanford International Policy Review recently posted an analysis titled "China's Role in Regional Integration in Africa: The Case of East African Community" by Abdou Rahim Lema and Samu Ngwenya.
The paper looks at China's approach to infrastructure development in the East African Community (EAC) and analyzes China's trade polices towards the Community. It concludes that China's support of infrastructure in the EAC plays a crucial role in enabling cross-border mobility of labor, capital and goods. But China's current trade policies toward the EAC seem to threaten the region's integration prospects by jeopardizing intraregional trade and growing their trade imbalance with China.
