commodities Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/commodities/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 commodities Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/commodities/ 32 32 Chinese expatriate in Africa face an uncertain future https://jjcornish.com/2016/03/chinese-expatriate-in-africa-face-an-uncertain-future/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/03/chinese-expatriate-in-africa-face-an-uncertain-future/ Anaemic economies in China and Africa are leaving the estimated two million Asian expatriates settled  here facing an uncertain future. The bulk of them are either too poor or too tied into African economies to move elsewhere. ends intro The Chinese and other expatriate communities in Africa are extremely diverse, and for a certain slice […]

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The bulk of them are either too poor or too tied into African economies to move elsewhere.

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The Chinese and other expatriate communities in Africa are extremely diverse, and for a certain slice of that community the new, grim economic realities pose real challenges.

These include China investing less in Africa and buying fewer commodities from herec

The flow of Chinese migrants into Africa has slowed.

Some who have been here for decades are moving on or thinking of doing so.

This is not possible with those who have businesses or farms.

They are hostages to fortune – relying on an economic upturn either here or back in China.

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