How China’s economic and security interests converge in Africa

Cobus van Staden is the co-founder and managing editor of the China Global South Project, an independent startup tracking China’s influence throughout the Global South. He is also a senior research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs, and a non-resident fellow at the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, where he focuses on Chinese messaging in Africa. Read more

Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP), an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China’s engagement in Africa. Eric is also the co-host, along with Cobus van Staden, of The China in Africa Podcast, a member of the Sinica Podcast Network by The China Project. Read more