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Middle Eastern countries look to China for infrastructure funding, new technology
Countries in the Middle East, especially Iraq, are a new focus of investment under China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a report out of Fudan University said today.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, January 4, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits several east Africa and Indian Ocean states, further solidifying the Africa-China relationship.
Misinformation about China-Africa relations in the wake of the Dakar forum
Development economist Anzetse Were and Eric Olander discuss common misperceptions about African relations with China and what really happened at the recent Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Dakar, Senegal.
China promises 1 billion vaccine doses for Africa
At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Senegal, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled nine initiatives to help Africa combat COVID-19 and spark economic growth. A pledge to donate 600 million vaccine doses and produce an additional 400 million locally caught the most attention.
Editor’s note for Monday, November 29, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xi promises 1 billion doses of vaccines to Africa at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Senegal; diaper companies prepare for the elderly market to exceed that of babies by 2025; Disney censors an old episode of The Simpsons in Hong Kong; and more.
Blinken downplays China competition on Africa tour
“We don’t want to make you choose” between the U.S. and China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a three-nation tour in Africa, playing down the zero-sum messaging of his predecessors. But with mixed signals from elsewhere in the U.S. government, will African countries take up Blinken’s offer of deeper partnership?
Chinese car companies charge into Africa
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Why are Chinese officials in Africa so active in messaging on Xinjiang?
A new wave of Chinese propaganda, pushing back on claims of genocide and human rights abuses in Xinjiang, is being promoted widely in Africa. Here are a few reasons why Africa might be a focus of this messaging campaign.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi begins five-nation Africa tour
What might China’s goals be in paying visits to Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles?
Chinese private sector engagement in Africa is going to be much more important in 2021
African governments are becoming more interested in public-private partnerships with Chinese companies.
China is changing course in Africa
Are China’s activities in Africa focused on furthering domestic political objectives rather than on providing what the continent needs most right now, capital and infrastructure?
Can China integrate Africa’s new free trade area with the Belt and Road?
Comments from a high-ranking official at China’s National Development and Reform Commission are the clearest signal so far that Beijing is serious about linking its own multinational trading regime with Africa’s.
China must save Zambia from imminent default. No one else can.
China accounts for nearly two-thirds of Zambia’s external debt, and will play a pivotal role in the outcome of any potential debt renegotiation. It is in China’s interest to lead a debt restructuring plan for Zambia, just as it did earlier for Angola.
Nigeria’s unprecedented censure of China
I’ve been covering the China-Africa story closely for more than 10 years and I can’t think of another example of such a forceful denunciation of the Chinese government by a group of African governing elites.
China-Africa relations face an ‘unprecedented rupture’
African residents in Guangzhou have reportedly have been evicted from homes.
Africans in Guangzhou face special scrutiny amid coronavirus-fueled xenophobia
Africans in Guangzhou face special scrutiny amid coronavirus-fueled xenophobia
Kenyan students in Wuhan plead for evacuation
Illustration by Derek Zheng for The China Project On January 31, eight days into the lockdown of Wuhan, 17 members of the Kenyan Students Association…
