China–Guinea-Bissau relations

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China-Guinea-Bissauan relations
Map indicating locations of China and Guinea-Bissau

China

Guinea-Bissau

People's Republic of China – Guinea-Bissau relations refers to the

Republic of China
(Taiwan) rather than with the People's Republic. Relations were reestablished in 1998 and maintained since.

History

The PRC was one of the

Koumba Yala (2002) visited China as well.[3]

The PRC suspended relations after Burkina Faso's recognition of Taiwan in May 1990.[1]: 347  In April 1998, Guinea-Bissau and the PRC restored relations.[1]: 347 

During the Ebola outbreak in western Africa, Guinea-Bissau was one of the countries to which China's People's Liberation Army provided medical personnel.[1]: 245 

In June 2020, Guinea-Bissau was one of 53 countries backed the Hong Kong national security law at the United Nations.[4]

Economics, trade and aid

The two countries signed a number of bilateral economic agreements from 1974 to 1990; China built a stadium, hospital and other technological facilities. After the resumption of relations in 1998, China focused on enhancing agricultural production, housing, fisheries and power generation. Since the first

Official Development Assistance to Guinea-Bissau.[5]
Major officially financed development projects in Guinea-Bissau include:

As of 2002, Guinea-Bissau imported approximately US$4.5 million of Chinese goods.[3]

Guinea-Bissau and China both participate in the multi-lateral group Forum Macao, which China formed in 2003 to increase economic and commercial cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries.[1]: 62 

In 2010, China announced a $1 billion fund designed to increase trade between the PRC and Portuguese speaking countries.[9]

In 2017, China announced that it was to invest $184 million to build a biomass power plant.[10]

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ Guinea-Bissau: China Sees a Risk Worth Taking Archived 2011-01-10 at the Wayback Machine Center for Strategic and International Studies
  3. ^ a b Guinea-Bissau China Internet Information Center, 10 October 2006
  4. ^ Lawler, Dave (2 July 2020). "The 53 countries supporting China's crackdown on Hong Kong". Axios. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. ^ Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development". Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  7. ^ "Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development". Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  8. ^ "Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development". Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  9. ^ Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.
  10. ^ Global Times. 2017.