US media analysis of military involvement in Africa, China said Western critics exaggerate | | Africa _ China News

Original title: beauty Magazine: China has a legitimate interest in security in Western Africa to strengthen cooperation is wise

Compile Liu Zongya

Reference news, July 4 the European Council on foreign relations Assistant Nonresident Fellow at the Center for international cooperation, New York University lichade·gaoen June 20 in the United States the world politics review sites published, entitled the Western China more and more important role in security in Africa should be worried? Article said that China is emerging as an important military role in Africa. It sent combat troops to support the United Nations operation in southern Sudan, will establish a naval station in Djibouti and has pledged money to the African Union peace operations. This is the dark side of Western observers feared evidence Beijing quietly strive to become a global power, or is it can contribute more to the global stability of the positive signs?

Cohen said in the article, just as I, Madie·dishataier and mannuaier·lafeng·lapunuyier in the new report published by the European Council on foreign relations points out, if China did not pay more attention to security in Africa, that was weird. Its economic investment is growing throughout Africa, where Chinese people work more and more. Only 250,000 people in Angola. In recent years, Libya, Chad and the Central African Republic during the crisis, Beijing had to arrange the evacuation.

Accused in the South China Sea to provoke conflict and Syria amid crisis stand by Beijing can also show its presence in Africa, to prove its commitment to the international security system. It sent one infantry battalion to South Sudan to accept command of the United Nations, undertook a military hospital to Mali, and engineers were sent to Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although the implementation of the United Nations Mission of Chinese soldiers and police still only 3000 people, including part of the missions in the Middle East, but it is involved in the implementation of the United Nations Mission of United States personnel nearly 40 times.

Although the United Nations peacekeeping budget of $ 8.2 billion in 2015, United States about 28%, is the number one gold, but this year has become the second largest investor in China, the investment proportion can exceed 10%. Chinese leaders at a Summit in New York last year once again surprised other leaders, said an additional 8,000 troops and helicopters involved in the implementation of blue helmet missions.

Beijing also decided that a naval facilities in Djibouti in support of their action against pirates in the Gulf of Aden, which is "a win-win move, both China and its African partners, and even the wider security interests of the international community, while keeping a low profile, refusing to call base. ”

Article said that Western concerns and criticisms may be exaggerated. Beijing's commitment to deploy additional peacekeeping troops has yet to become a reality, and China seems to be impossible as the saying to send so many people. Chinese officials had taken a hard line on the budget of the United Nations to resist in such matters as conflict prevention spending.

Article said that Beijing meddling in Africa are clearly not purely philanthropic act. But the many shortcomings of course is not unique to the African continent. For example, other countries also make use of peace operations as an excuse to engage in intelligence. Is almost certainly, parties are also trying to Mali and South Sudan of Chinese military espionage, because it is believed that where monitoring is much easier than in front of their house.

If Chinese officials are sometimes reluctant to take risks, like many other contingents of the United Nations or even worse. Chinese troops in South Sudan stressed the need for contact with locals, while other United Nations forces, such as the India army, huddled in his frequently near the base.

These tactical approach ultimately subordinate to the larger strategic issues. Beijing Western powers towards replacing the traditionally dominant African Affairs, please?

Article said that last year, United States President Barack Obama's visit to Africa, it is widely believed that this was to counter China's growing influence. Beijing has been accused of blocking or delaying Western efforts to address violence in Burundi and other African crises.

These accusations, however dubious, for three reasons. First, China may be an emerging role in United Nations operations, but its military presence in Africa as a whole are still lags far behind Western powers. In addition to several permanent bases and ongoing counterterrorism deployment, France also called countries to help it combat terrorism in the Sahel in West Africa, and the United States military has invested greatly in training. European Union in stability operations in Somalia, Africa spent US $ 1 billion. In contrast, China will catch up still has a long way to go.

Second, Western officials tend to view China's opposition to interference in Africa as they hope to avoid the crisis not as an excuse. For example, it is easy to blame it on Beijing to delay international action in Burundi, but the culprit is France, which hopes to avoid another crisis after the crisis in the Central African Republic. France is now the Central African Republic continues to deploy troops.

Third, these foreign role masks African powers have the ability to set their own the fact that the city's security agenda. In the South of Sudan and the crisis in the Horn of Africa has a great voice, but Ethiopia more and more able to decide diplomatic and security issues in the region. Algeria is a major diplomatic role of stabilizing the situation in Mali, but Beijing has not yet acceded, although Beijing army was there. At the United Nations, if they have no direct interest, Chinese diplomats abstained model to support Africa's position on the conflict.

Article said that China's role in security matters in Africa has become a reality, and this role will continue to grow. But Beijing is not working in a vacuum. It will have to work with the African powers and bargaining and competition so as to expand their influence in Western countries, and there are many restrictions on the African continent to mobilize troops. If Western policymakers are wise, they will increasingly focus on Africa China as an opportunity and to find areas of cooperation, such as the strengthening of United Nations action, and to help influence the decisions of Beijing.

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美媒分析中国军事力量介入非洲 称西方批评夸大|中国|非洲_新闻资讯

　　原标题：美刊:中国有理由关注非洲安全 西方加强合作才明智

　　编译 刘宗亚　

　　参考消息网7月4日报道 欧洲对外关系委员会助理研究员、纽约大学国际合作中心非常驻研究员理查德·高恩6月20日在美国《世界政治评论》网站刊发题为《西方应该对中国在非洲越来越重要的安全作用担心吗？》的文章称，中国正成为非洲重要的军事角色。它派出了作战部队支持联合国在南苏丹的行动，将在吉布提设立海军兵站并已经承诺对非洲联盟的和平行动投钱。这是悲观的西方观察家所担心的北京在悄悄力争成为世界大国的证据，还是它可以对全球稳定作出更大贡献的积极迹象？

　　高恩在文章中称，正如我、马蒂厄·迪沙泰尔和曼努埃尔·拉丰·拉普努伊尔在欧洲对外关系委员会发表的新报告中所指出的，如果中国不更加关注非洲安全，那才奇怪呢。它在整个非洲的经济投资越来越大，而在那里工作的中国人也越来越多。仅安哥拉就有25万中国人。近年来，在利比亚、乍得和中非共和国爆发危机期间，北京不得不安排撤侨。

　　在被指责在南中国海挑起冲突和对叙利亚危机袖手旁观之际，北京还可以通过展示其在非洲的存在来证明其对国际安全体系的承诺。它向南苏丹派遣了一个步兵营接受联合国指挥，向马里派出了一个军事医院，向利比里亚和刚果民主共和国派出了工兵。虽然执行联合国任务的中国军人和警察仍然只有3000人，其中有一部分在中东执行任务，但是却是参与执行联合国任务的美国人员的近40倍。

　　虽然在2015年的联合国82亿美元的维和预算中，美国出资约占28%，是头号金主，然而中国今年已经成为第二大出资者，出资比例超过10%。中国领导人去年在纽约举行的一次峰会上再次让其他领导人惊讶，表示增派8000名官兵和直升机参与执行蓝盔任务。

　　北京还决定在吉布提建立一个海军设施，以支持其在亚丁湾开展打击海盗的行动，这是“双赢之举，兼顾中国及其非洲伙伴甚至更广大的国际社会的安全利益，同时保持低调，拒绝称之为基地。”

　　文章称，西方的担心和批评可能夸大了。北京增派维和部队的承诺尚未变成现实，而且中国似乎不可能像所说的派出那么多人。中国官员在联合国的预算问题上还是采取强硬路线，抵制在冲突预防等事情上增加开支。

　　文章称，北京插手非洲显然不是纯粹的慈善之举。然而其对非洲大陆方针上的很多缺点并非独一无二。比如，其他大国也利用和平行动作为搞情报的借口。几乎可以肯定的是，各方也在试图对马里和南苏丹的中国军队搞间谍活动，因为据认为在那些地方监视他们比在他们家门口要容易得多。

　　如果说中方人员有时不愿承担风险，联合国其他很多分遣队也一样甚至更糟。在南苏丹的中国军队强调要与当地人接触，而其他联合国部队，比如印度的军队，往往就缩在自己的基地附近。

　　这些战术方针最终从属于更大的战略问题。北京在争取取代历来主导非洲事务的西方列强吗？

　　文章称，去年美国总统奥巴马访问非洲，人们普遍认为这是为了抗衡中国不断扩大的影响力。北京曾被指责阻止或延误西方应对布隆迪暴力等非洲危机的努力。

　　然而对这些指责应该半信半疑，原因有三。第一，中国在联合国行动中可能是一个正在崛起的角色，然而它在整个非洲的军事存在仍然远远落后于西方列强。除了拥有好几个永久性基地和正在进行中的反恐部署，法国还召集西非国家帮助它打击萨赫勒的恐怖主义，而美国在训练本地区军队方面投入很大。欧盟在索马里的非洲稳定行动中花费了10亿美元。与之相比，中国要赶上去还有很长的路要走。

　　第二，西方官员往往把中国反对干涉非洲作为在他们希望避而远之的危机中不作为的辩解。比如，很容易怪罪北京耽搁国际上对布隆迪采取行动，不过罪魁祸首是法国，它希望在中非共和国危机之后避免卷入又一场危机。法国现在中非共和国仍然部署着军队。

　　第三，这些外来角色的说法掩盖了非洲强国有能力制定自己大陆的安全日程这一事实。中国在南苏丹和非洲之角的危机中有很大的话语权，不过埃塞俄比亚越来越能够决定本地区外交和安全问题。阿尔及利亚是稳定马里局势的主要的外交角色，然而北京尚未加入其中，虽然北京在那里有军队。在联合国，如果对他们没有直接的利害关系，中国外交官采取弃权模式来支持非洲对冲突的立场。

　　文章称，中国在非洲安全事务中的作用已经成为现实，而且这种作用将会继续扩大。不过北京并不是在真空中做事。它将不得不与非洲列强和西方国家讨价还价和竞争来扩大自己的影响力，而且它在非洲大陆动用军队有很多限制。如果西方决策者明智，他们将把中国日益关注非洲作为一个机遇并寻找合作领域，比如加强联合国行动，来帮助影响北京的决策。

　　来源：参考消息网

责任编辑：王浩成

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