China’s Role On “All-weather Friendship” Policy: Zimbabwe Inclusive Economic Growth Analysis (2020-2024)

Abstract

We cannot deny China's domination on the world economic sector, but that does not mean China has not any interest or looked down upon other countries, in fact China has provided foreign aid to many underdeveloped countries through its “All-weather Friendship” policy. China has been keeping this official bilateral relationship up to 13 countries with providing investments, building infrastructures, security, even in military, and Zimbabwe is one of them. China have been keeping relationship with Zimbabwe through this policy since 2015 and looking in Zimbabwe’s economic situation it’s safe to say that Zimbabwe significantly rely on China aid and looking for a long-term relationship with how China being a major driver of Zimbabwe’s
economic growth and development to the point it creates some sort of dependency with how it connects according to dependency theory by Andre Gunder Frank about how this relationship its concepting in the development of underdevelopment relationship between these two countries. Looking at Zimbabwe dependency with China, the authors purpose is to give a comprehensive description about China’s role in developing Zimbabwe economic growth with this bilateral relationship.