China’s New Role in Africa and the South:A search for a new perspective Program

Opening
Dinner

Venue
– The South Beauty (Qiao Jiang Nan), Super Brand Mall (Zheng Da Guang
Chang), 10^th
Flr. 168 Lujiazui Xi Lu

 Welcome Dinner for Participants

Facilitator:
Ms. Dorothy Guerrero, Focus
on the Global South

Welcome
and Opening Remarks

Mr.
Nick Young, China
Development Brief

 Brief Introduction of Organizing Committee

Dr.
Walden Bello, Focus
on the Global South

Hakima
Abbas,Fahamu

Pietje
Vervest, Transnational
Institute

 Opportunities
and Challenges for China's New Role in Africa

Prof.
Xu Weizhong,China
Academy for Social Sciences

Open Forum

Morning
Session Facilitator:
Ms. Pietje Vervest, Transnational Institute

 Who we are and what do we want to achieve in this
meeting?

Introduction
and Objectives for the meeting

Globalization
and China's Renaissance:

A
New Powershift?

Dr.
Walden Bello,Executive
Director, Focus on the Global South

Wind
from the East: China and Africa's development

Dr.
Yan Hairong, Sociology
Department, University of Hong Kong

 Open Forum

 China
and the Global Financial System and Architecture

Facilitator:
Mr. Nick Young, China Development Brief

China,
the World Bank, and the IMF , Ms.
Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South

China's
New Role as Global Investor (power point presentation),Mr.
Peter Bosshard, International Rivers Network 

China's
New Role in the African Development Bank (power point presentation), Ms.
Nikki Reisch, Bank Information Centre – Africa 

Chinese
Perspective on the Global Financial System, Mr.
Li Jian, Shanghai
International Finance Research Centre

Why
Chinese Civil Society Should Engage the IFIs,Dr.
Yu Xiaogang,Director,
Green Watershed Project

 Open Forum

 Lunch Break

China
and the South

Facilitator:
Hakima Abbas, Fahamu

Part
1

China
in Africa, Charles
Mutasa, African
Network on Debt and Development

Human Rights, Trade and Investment and the China-in-Africa Discourse, Dr.
Barry Sautman, Hong
Kong University of Science and technology

Comments:

Mr.
Justin Fong, Director,Moving
Mountains

Ms.
Sara Musa El Saeed,Christian
Aid

Open
Forum

Part
2

 China in Latin America, Dr.
Alexandre Barbosa,Observatorio
Social, Brazil

China
and its Neighbors ,Ms.
Dorothy Guerrero, Focus
on the Global South

 The Political Economy of China's aid, Trade and Investment Policies to the South,Dr.
Luk Tak Chuen, Oxfam
HK, Beijing Office

 Comments

 Expediency and Interests in Contemporary China-Myanmar Relations

Dr.
Khin Zaw Win (Burma)

Ms.
Michel Chan-Fishel, Friends of the Earth – US

 Open
Forum

How
can Civil Society Engage?

Facilitator:
Ms. Nicola Bullard, Focus on the Global South

 Civil Society and Volunteerism in China,Mr.
Fu Tao,China
Development Brief

The State – Society Relationship in China and Perspectives
for China- Africa Civil Society Cooperation

Prof.
Wen Tiejun, RenMin
University, Beijing

Open Forum

 China’s Strategic Infrastructural Investments in Africa

 Ms.
Lucy Corkin,Centre
for Chinese Studies ,Stellenbosch
University, South Africa

Cases:

 Mr. Ali Askouri, Piankhi Institute, Sudan

Mr.
Daniel Ribeiro, Justiça
Ambiental, Mozambique

  Open Forum

Workshop on Building South-South Partnerships

(Participants
may be divided based on advocacy theme, sector, etc)

 Report Back: Plans, Projects, and Future Collaborations

 Additional papers 

CHINA AS
'PARTNER' OR NEO-COLONIAL OPERATOR IN AFRICA ?

DOT KEET

 China’s Interest and Activity in Angola’s Construction and Infrastructure Sectors

By Lucy Corkin