ABSTRACT
This chapter presents useful information for African policy-makers in developing national, subregional and regional strategies and policies in their engagements of EU member states and China, for maximum and sustained impact. It focuses on potential trilateral areas of friendship and cooperation between the EU, China and African countries in regional infrastructure development and sustainable resource development and extraction. Engagements of both EU member states and China in Africa aimed at one and same ends: bolstering diplomatic presence; accumulating international goodwill and ensuring supplies of energy and mineral resources. Cooperation is required between EU and China in developing water infrastructure in African countries. Natural resource exploitation and energy or mineral security are at the core of the EU and China's engagements in Africa. EU member states accused of unacceptable practices with respect to natural resources in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, relegating them to the status of merchandise, rather than that of a public good that needs to be protected.
