Nigeria-China Strategic Military Cooperation and Intervention: The Importance of Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC)
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2020-12-15
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International Journal of Humanitatis Theoreticus
Abstract
The Nigerian state has become a theatre of growing security challenges such as armed banditry,
insurgency, farmer-harder and communal clashes with devastating consequences on human
lives and economic activities. These challenges has however affected the terms of bilateral and
multilateral relations with references to areas of Nigeria’s relations with countries of the world
such as USA, Germany and China. Nigeria-China relations commenced on unofficial note with
China’s presence at Nigeria’s independence celebration in 1960 and have improved with the
establishment of Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC). The forum has clearly
defined areas of cooperation with the Continent of Africa such as infrastructural development,
trade and investment, human capacity development (person-to-person exchange) and security
cooperation. Given the forgoing position, this paper examines the issues in Nigeria-China
security cooperation within the framework of FOCAC. Data was sources through Key
informant Interview and secondary sources and subjected to thematic analysis. It was based on
interdependence thesis developed by Keohane and Nye (1994). It discovered that, through
FOCAC Nigeria-China security cooperation have yielded