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In this week's edition of the Emerging Powers News Round-Up, read a comprehensive list of news stories and opinion pieces related to China, India and other emerging powers...

1. China in Africa

China, Tanzania Sign $1bn Gas Pipeline Deal – report
China and Tanzania have signed a $1 billion loan agreement to build a major natural gas pipeline in east Africa's second-biggest economy, a Tanzanian newspaper quoted the country's energy minister as saying on Friday. Reuters reports that the deal involves the construction of a 532-kilometre pipeline from Mnazi Bay and Songo Songo island in southern Tanzania to the country's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
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China donates Sh2bn relief food for drought-stricken Kenyans
Kenya has received the largest food relief ever from foreign countries for more than 4.5 million hunger-stricken citizens. The government on Wednesday received the first batch of relief food worth Sh2 billion from the Chinese government at the Port of Mombasa. The food is expected to be distributed to different regions of the country, starting this week.
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Kenya Lauds Chinese Financial, Technical Assistance
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday thanked the Chinese government for the continued financial and technical support to Kenya's development agenda, particularly flagship projects key to attainment of Vision 2030. President Kibaki said Kenya appreciates the massive assistance in development and rehabilitation of infrastructure projects the Chinese government extended to Kenyans which have had significant impact on the country's socioeconomic development.
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Murmurs as Chinese company clinches Sierra Leonean airport deal
China has agreed to finance the construction of a new airport for Sierra Leone, as part of efforts to boos its presence in the West African country. An engineering team from leading Chinese construction group, China International Railway Group, which is said to have been awarded the contract, is in the country to conduct some ground work ahead of the actual construction work. But there are murmurs on the awarding of the country.
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Desertification control: China shares lessons with Africa
Muktar works for Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection Department of the Ethiopian government. Together with 22 people from 10 African countries, he learned desertification-combating techniques like sand fixation, water-saving irrigation and greenhouse planting, and visited an International Horticultural Expo held in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
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2. India in Africa

India to build thermal power station in Mozambique
The Mozambican government has authorised the Indian company Jindal Steel and Power to begin studies for the construction of a thermal power station to produce electricity from coal in the central province of Tete. The power plant would have a capacity to produce 2,640 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the domestic and regional market. According to daily newspaper ‘Noticias’, construction of the power station would cost US$3 billion.
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SA, India seek to build on strong bilateral trade relations
India and South Africa have a historical relationship but, recently, the two countries have been focusing on ways and platforms to further strengthen trade relations. In her opening remarks at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Business Unity South Africa (Busa) seminar, Busa CEO Nomaxabiso Majokweni said business relations between the two countries were growing and the long-term aim was to increase bilateral trade.
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3. In Other Emerging Powers News

Turkey spreads its wings into Africa
Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe. After a landmark August visit to Somalia and a tour of North Africa a month later, Erdogan brought a large business delegation to Africa's biggest economy, a clear sign of his desire to boost trade from its current humble levels.
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Russia, Djibouti to discuss African settlement, situation at Horn of Africa
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Djiboutian counterpart Mohamed Ali Yusuf will meet in Moscow for talks on Thursday, October 6, to discuss African settlement and the humanitarian situation near the Horn of Africa. This is the first visit of a high-ranking diplomat in the history of Russian-Djibouti relations; it should become an important new step forward in the development of our ties with the country.
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Copper miner gets $500m shot in arm
Zambia's importance as a global copper producer was reaffirmed this week when Standard Bank announced that it had provided a $500-million bridge finance facility to Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia.
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5. Blogs, Opinions, Presentations and Publications

ANTHONY BUTLER: Why is China so influential over ANC politicians?
THE debate over the Dalai Lama’s inconclusive application for a visa to visit SA has revolved around one supposedly incontrovertible fact: that China is now SA’s "leading trading partner". Apologists for the government have explained that western luxuries such as free speech are to be set against the maintenance of cordial relations with an increasingly dominant economic and geopolitical power.
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China's big economic stick: No Dalai Lama allowed
In their research paper, "Paying a Visit: The 'Dalai Lama Effect' on International Trade", Andrea Fuchs and Nils-Hendrik Klann wrote: "Meetings of a head of state or head of government with the Dalai Lama lead to a reduction of exports to China by 8.1% or 16.9% on average, depending on the estimation technique used." The economists said that the effect was mainly driven by reduced exports of machinery and transport equipment. However, it disappeared in the second year after a meeting took place.
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India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue: Another Positive Step – Analysis
India and China concluded their inaugural Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) in Beijing. The forum was the result of an arrangement decided in the Joint Communiqué of India and China signed on December 16, 2010 when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited India. Held in Beijing over two days, the Indian side was led by the Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, with a unique format to enhance inter-ministerial coordination by taking along representatives from nine ministries.
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Playing on Chinese ground: Emerging Asian investors in Africa
Currently, China is leading Asian investment in Africa. While criticism and controversies have kept international attention on the biggest Asian economy, investigating whether China is setting an example for other Asian countries to follow bears interesting results. Among the Asian players in Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, to name a few, have been investing in the energy sector as well as in natural resources throughout the continent. They are differentiating themselves by relying more on the private sector than on their Governmental ties with African countries.
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China’s Influence: Waxing or Waning?
One of the significant unresolved questions surrounding Chinese foreign policy is whether China’s influence is expanding or diminishing. Is China a model for other countries? Does its economic clout give it sway in other arenas? Does its growing military prowess have the potential to bend others to its will?
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