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From Bandung to “One Belt One Road”: China’s Aid to Africa during the Cold War Era and Its Third World Conception

Jiwoon Baik 1

1서울대학교 통일평화연구원

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ABSTRACT

This article posits that the origin of “One Belt One Road,” a blueprint for contemporary China’s comprehensive global strategy, dates back to China’s foreign aid to third-world countries as an international united front project during the Cold War era. After the Bandung Conference, Africa became the most critical area for China to compete over influence in the third world. China’s turbulent experience in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s played a significant role in designing its world strategic lines from “Intermediate Zone Theory,” “Two Intermediate Zones Theory,” to “Three Worlds Theory.” By discovering the continuous and disconnected links in the process of the Cold War era’s slogan of “Asia-Africa Solidarity” being summoned back as a new name of “Global South” today, this article seeks a way to problematize “One Belt One Road” as a thought project.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.