Abstract
The new role of China as global development agent is much disputed, with polar positions that see China either as the new imperialist on the block or as offering countries of the Global South a more sustainable and sovereignty-respecting path to development and a welcome alternative to the Western model of coercive neoliberalism and structural adjustment. A number of studies suggest that the idea of imperialist China is grossly exaggerated. Indeed, certain versions of this idea are taken to extremes in imputing a conspiratorial relationship between Chinese state diplomacy and Chinese private emigration, which is alleged to be part of a deliberate official strategy of global encroachment and colonization. Huynh et al. (2010, p. 287) cite the example of the award-winning British journalist Andrew Malone, who warns that the ‘invasion’ of Africa by China has been occurring ‘secretly’ through the movement of Chinese people to the continent.
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