The European Council on Foreign Relations published in June 2016 a policy brief titled "Into Africa: China's Global Security Shift" by Mathieu Duchatel, Richard Gowan, and Manuel Lafont Rapnouil.
The report concludes that China's new security presence in Africa is a direct result of its increasingly global stance, both in economics and security. China aims to establish itself as a great power that contributes to global security and to protect its interests abroad...................