China in Malaysia: State-Business Relations and the New Order of Investment Flows by Edmund Terence Gomez, Siew Yean Tham, Ran Li and Kee Cheok Cheong. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 116 pp.

Abstract

Studies on China’s economic presence, political relations and soft power in overseas countries have been a hot topic for academic and political discourse since the mid-2000s. China’s presence in different countries over time serves to secure natural resources for its industrial expansion, opening out foreign markets for its consumer products, diffusing its soft cultural power and providing aid to third world countries. In this context, Africa stands out to be a very important continent for China. They are many books that capture “China in Africa” from the mid-2000 until the present day.