在安全政策方面，中国依然只不过是非洲的一个潜在性力量。目前和早先的论坛在中国-非洲合作（FOCAC）行动计划上提供首要地位给和平和安全条款，赞扬中国在非洲的维和任务，它承担义务去排雷操作和保证中国-非洲联合对抗恐怖主义和例如天灾、流离人口、非法移民、跨国经济罪行、贩毒和传染性疾病的非-常规威胁。

    新的特点是中国对非洲无核化（一个事实自南非和利比亚抛弃了他们的计划之后）的支持，承诺对小型武器和轻武器交易斗争，修辞性的谴责在对抗恐怖主义上的'双重标准'，一个对美国政策的含蓄批评。

    这些正式的承诺，它或许维持和平在那里中国有最好的潜在投入。人民解放军仅仅在2003年4月开始去委派军队到非洲的联合国军事行动，一个工程单位用于刚果民主共和国（MONUC）的联合国任务。对利比里亚（UNMIL，自从2003年12月以后）和苏丹（UNMIS，自从2006年4月以后）的单位部署，它在非洲现在有超过1,300名维和人员，它联合国承诺的80%。在政治上它将可以容易地胜过南亚的承担义务成为参加非洲维非和的优势。

    冲突后安全协助，象最近在科摩洛、中非共和国和利比里亚中看到，也有潜力。中国特别地被很好地安排去重点恢复非洲崩溃的军事设施（兵舍、飞机跑道等）。而且，像G8情形，已经保证增强非洲和平维持力量的能力。

    附原文供对照参考：

China's latest African gambit

In terms of security policy, China is still but a latent power in Africa. The current and previous Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) action plans give pride of place to peace and security provisions, commending China's role in African peacekeeping, its commitment to demining operations and pledging China-Africa co-operation against terrorism and non-traditional threats such as natural disasters, population displacement, illegal migration, transnational economic crime, drug trafficking and communicable diseases.

New features were Chinese support for a nuclear weapons-free Africa (a reality since South Africa and Libya abandoned their programmes), a commitment to fighting the trade in small arms and light weapons, and rhetorical condemnation of 'double standards' in the fight against terrorism, an implicit criticism of US policy.

Of these formal commitments, it is probably peacekeeping where China has the greatest potential input. The People's Liberation Army only began to commit troops to UN operations in Africa in April 2003, with an engineering unit for the United nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC). With units deployed to Liberia (UNMIL, since December 2003) and Sudan (UNMIS, since April 2006), it now has over 1,300 peacekeepers in Africa, 80 per cent of its UN commitment. With political will it could easily surpass South Asian commitments to become the dominant peacekeeping presence in Africa.

Post-conflict security assistance, as seen recently in Comoros, the Central African Republic and Liberia, also has potential. China is particularly well placed to redevelop Africa's crumbling military infrastructure (barracks, airstrips, etc) and, like the G8 states, has pledged to reinforce the logistics capacity of African peace support forces.

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