End of 'Angola model' sees number of Chinese in oil-rich African country plummet
Published on: Saturday 02 July 2022
The number of Chinese people living in Angola is estimated to have dropped from a peak of more than 300,000 during a post-civil war construction boom to less than 20,000 as a new president recalibrates the African country's relationship with China. When the Angolan civil war ended in 2002 after 27 years of destruction, it was China rather than the West that agreed to fund the country's reconstruction. That coincided with the Chinese government's going-out strategy, which encouraged state-owned o
