The Impact of International Relations between China and Zambia

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The history of Zambia includes a long and distressing journey, filled with disputing political practices over a newly independent government, economic troubles, and disease (Zambia Profile 2011). Despite these troubles, Zambia currently has an abundant variety of natural resources which provides hope for a country suffering from these despairs. Located centrally within Southern Africa, surrounded by Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, one would not think of Zambia as a top exporter of copper (considering most trades occur on the coast), along with an important investment for Chinese geopolitical conquests. The abundance of copper within a majority of the region provides for the country’s main source of income. In a country essentially reliant on one main export, undoubtedly, problems arise between this direct relationship of copper exports and the economic stability of Zambia. Due to the direct impact of copper mining within Zambia in relation to the economic condition, and the increasing reliance of Chinese involvement within the industry, Zambia has become dependent on these foreign investments/natural resources, creating a highly unstable economy consistently alternating between push and pull factors.

From the very beginning, the discovery of copper in the 1920s attracted foreigners searching for wealth, which at that time included European technicians and administrators (Zambia Profile 2011). Today China, especially, favors involvement in Zambian copper, considering it is one of its largest consumers. The influence of China however began in a time when Zambia’s copper industry began to falter, and as a result, started to shut down. When the traditional southern route of copper closed in the 1970s, ...

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