Nele Noesselt

Shaping power and strategic security framing: China’s Global Security Initiative in Africa, the development–security nexus, and the case of Ethiopia

This article examines widely overlooked shifts in China’s interactions with African states resulting from the all-encompassing securitization of politics under Xi Jinping. It argues that Beijing seeks to increase China’s discursive and shaping power capacities through strategic security framing, reaching out to the gro...