Asian-African Strategic Partnership

The aims of the subject “New Asian-African Strategic Partnership” are the following:

1. To understand the objectives of the New Asia-Africa Strategic Partnership;
2. To evaluate the advantages for the African Countries;
3. To know the pillars of the Afro-Asian cooperation;
4. To analyze the foreign trade (Import, Export) between Asia and Africa.

The Subject “New Asian-African Strategic Partnership” belongs to the following Online Higher Educational Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Course: International Relations of Africa.

Masters (MIB): Business in Africa.

Doctorate (DIB): African Business, Asian Business, World Trade.

Learning materials in or Afrique-Asie África-Asia África-Asia.

New Asian-African Strategic Partnership

In the Asia-Africa Summit held in Indonesia (Jakarta, 2005), the African and the Asian leaders adopted the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) with the main objective of encouraging the bi-continental cooperation between them.

The three pillars of the Strategic Partnership between Asia and Africa are:

1. Economic Cooperation;
2. Socio-cultural Relations;
3. Political Solidarity.

South Africa and Indonesia co-chairs the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership.

The New Asian-African Strategic Partnership is a forum for cooperation between fifty-four Asian Countries and fifty-two African Countries.

The New Asian-African Strategic Partnership has defined eight top areas of collaboration:

1. SME;
2. Food security;
3. University networking;
4. Tourism;
5. Energy security;
6. Gender equality;
7. Women empowerment;
8. Fight against trans-national organized crime;
9. Counterterrorism.

The New Asian-African Strategic Partnership devotes particular attention to the liberation of Palestine.

Asia-Africa Foreign Trade.

1. Asia is the third export continental market of Africa (26% of total African foreign trade);
2. Africa is the four export continental market of Asia (3% of total Asian foreign trade);
3. Total Asian foods exports to Africa: 16 billion dollars;
4. Commodities are the largest African export product to Asia;
5. Top African imports from Asia are capital and consumer goods and fuel.

Asia-Africa Bilateral Relations:

1. Forum on China-Africa Cooperation;
2. Africa-India Framework for Cooperation;
3. Africa-Japan (TICAD);
4. Africa-Korea;
5. Asia-Africa Growth Corridor.

The Asia-Africa Strategic Partnership belongs to the African Civilization, Buddhist Civilization, Hindu Civilization, Islamic Civilization.

African Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Asian Countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

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