The Director of the Centre for China Studies, Charles Onunaiju, says no state, including Nigeria, should entertain worry or concern about loss of its sovereignty in relation to partnership with China.
Onunaiju, in a statement, said China’s international engagements with Nigeria and other African countries were guided by five principles, including mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty as well as mutual non-aggression.
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“No treaty, agreement and any other instrument of cooperation with China can remotely lead to loss of sovereignty.
“The controversy issuing from China’s concessional loans to Nigeria in which hysteria and paranoia is been orchestrated about potential loss of Nigeria’s sovereignty or purported China’s takeover of Nigeria is absolutely false and unfounded,” he stated.
He said any unbiased study and scientific interrogation of the People’s Republic of China and its foreign relations would show that Beijing had strictly adhered to its foundational five principles of peaceful co-existence in her foreign relations.
“As an independent research centre, we would counsel that it is much better to hold China to its declared principles and commitment than to speculate on the fictitious and non-existing “China’s debt traps”, “Colonialism” and “imperialism” he said.
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