Most poor countries — and that means most countries — don’t like the current “rules-based international order,” but America is not prepared for the enormous appeal of China’s influence, argues Cobus van Staden in our inaugural Southern View column.
Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden kick off their new network show, the China-Global South Podcast, by talking about where the show is going, and common misconceptions about China's often misunderstood role in the Global South.
China’s foreign minister has had a warm welcome on his eight-nation tour of the South Pacific, but he did not get everything Beijing wanted.
Zhao Lijian rebuked a recent warning from the United States to Angola and other African governments not to use equipment made by Huawei.
Marina Rudyak, assistant professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg, talks about the tensions between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine, and more.
Amid the Ukraine war and the economic impact of massive sanctions on Russia, China is deftly connecting worries about international turbulence with Africa’s wider perception that it’s perpetually ignored. Here’s what that means for the future of China’s relations with the Global South.