Rajpriya Gautam

The demands of servicing debts, largely to China, are weighing heavily on Kenya’s monetary system. The shilling dropped again in Monday trading and the central bank reported that foreign exchange reserves have plunged by $899 million over the last three months.  Analysts say beyond the hundreds of millions of dollars Kenya is using to repay loans to China, the holiday season is also increasing the demand for dollars. It all puts added pressure on the shilling, which closed at 112.83 to the dollar, a dangerous drop of more than 10% since last year.  (THE STANDARD) The High Court in the Ghanaian capital Accra has adjourned the lawsuit brought by civil society groups against the government to halt Chinese bauxite mining in the Atewa Forest Range.  The court will resume the case on February 8th next year and will have to judge whether the government should allow Chinese mining companies to prospect in the nature reserve as part of the $2 billion resources-for-infrastructure signed in 2018

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) found that  people inoculated with two doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine did not produce sufficient detectable levels of antibodies  needed to fend off the new highly-infectious Omicron variant. A third injection did generate some antibodies  but researchers cautioned that it is still too early to tell if the extra booster would be enough to prevent infection. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? L

Distribution of Sinovac’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine remains relatively limited in Africa, according to data from  Bridge Consulting’s weekly vaccine tracker  report. So, if the vaccine is not able to effectively counteract the Omicron variant, the overall impact will be limited. Jabs made by Sinopharm account for the bulk of Chinese vaccine sales and donations in Africa and it is still not known how effectively their vaccine is able to protect against the new variant. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/m

There does not appear to be any pattern to the inconsistent distribution of Chinese vaccines in Africa over the past 12 months. For much of the year, North African countries accounted for the bulk of deliveries, but that started to change as deliveries increased to southern African countries, namely Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and, more recently, Angola. Most African countries (all those in orange) have received fewer than a million doses each, which means that only a few hundred thousand people in each country have been fully vaccinated with a two-shot regimen — a very small proportion of a continent of more than 1.2 billion people.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Af

One of China’s largest video surveillance companies, Tiandy, is reportedly selling large quantities of sophisticated AI-enabled cameras with facial recognition technology to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and other Iranian security services,  according to a report published earlier this month by surveillance research group IPVM . Tiandy signed a five-year agreement with Iran and will have eight local employees, according to the company’s own social media posts and publicly available marketing materials. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for un

The Central Committee of China’s influential Communist Youth League (CYL)  published a rather comical (unintentionally of course) comparison between U.S. and Chinese engagement in Africa  that made the case as to why China, not surprisingly, is the more optimal partner for the continent. The arguments that the author, Yi Fan, lays out in the article are not particularly compelling as it’s plainly evident she lacks even a basic understanding of U.S. policy in Africa. The extent of her reasoning is essentially  China is good, the U.S. is bad, end of story —  so, substantively, there’s not much here. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global S

Nigeria’s total debt, both external and domestic,  edged up by 4% to $92.6 billion  as of the end of September according to the latest data from the Debt Management Office (DMO).  The DMO said the increase was due largely to the government’s $4 billion Eurobond issuance earlier this year that was used to fortify the country’s foreign exchange reserves and to prevent the naira from depreciating the same way that the Kenyan shilling has for the past year. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $1

Nigeria’s high-profile and rather controversial transportation minister Rotimi Amaechi is  under mounting pressure from political allies  to run for president in the upcoming election scheduled for 2023. And if he does run, there are indications he’s going to put new Chinese-financed and constructed infrastructure  like the Lagos-to-Ibadan standard gauge railway  at the center of his campaign. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here

U.S. and Chinese state-backed media outlets are once again exchanging fire over a Chinese-backed railway project in the Global South… but this time it’s not the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, instead, it’s Hanoi’s brand new subway in Vietnam that is at the center of yet another great power controversy. This latest squabble began on Monday  when VOA published a story that claimed the new metro is “hobbled by [a] lack of riders.”  VOA cited first-day ticket sales of just 12,000 or 8% of capacity as evidence of the apparent hesitation that Hanoians have towards their new Chinese-built subway. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken doesn’t want developing countries to feel they have to choose between the U.S. and China. He also wants to discourage these countries from building costly low-quality infrastructure and vowed that Washington will now be more committed to their region. Sound familiar?  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post The New U.S. Strategy for the Indo-Pacific Region Sounds a Lot L

The new $6 billion, 1,000-kilometer China-Laos railway that opened a couple of weeks ago is widely seen as the most visible evidence of Beijing’s push to expand its presence in Southeast Asia. The railway’s debut came just before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the region for the first time since the Biden administration took office. Blinken is now on a three-nation tour of the region. He’s vowed that the U.S. will challenge China’s “ aggressive actions ” in the Asia-Pacific region.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unl

The unsubstantiated claim by the U.S. military that China is considering Equatorial Guinea as the location of its next military base in Africa is widely gaining traction among U.S. and European journalists, scholars, and analysts despite the fact that there is still no evidence to verify the Pentagon’s assertion. A  recent Wall Street Journal article  quoted unnamed American officials and offered no other countervailing perspectives from Chinese military analysts who could provide badly-needed context. Yet many otherwise credible institutions seem willing to use the article as proof that the PLA is, in fact, building a base in Equatorial Guinea. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese

An interesting exchange took place on a recent episode of the Global Focus program on Sky News Australia where host Chris Pyne wanted to know from fellow Australian author and Africa scholar Jamie Miller whether China is exerting undue economic and political influence in South Africa.  Not possible, explained Miller, simply because South Africa’s current state of affairs is too disorganized for anyone to exercise that kind of influence, much less an external actor like China: This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthl

Somidez, the Congolese mining unit of the Chinese mining giant China Nonferrous Mining Corporation (CNMC), posted a series of fascinating photos that show the vibrant impromptu communities that form among truckers from across Africa as they wait for days in line to pick up their hauls of copper. The extended wait times are due to the DR Congo customs procedures and clearance that often require three to five days, and sometimes as long as ten days, to complete. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Ye

Both the Chinese embassy in Kampala and the Chinese contractor responsible for upgrading the Entebbe International Airport have been working hard this week to move the conversation away from the debt trap story that dominated the headlines over the past three weeks. The China Communications Construction Company (CCCC)  posted a tweet on Monday  that aims to showcase the benefits of the $207 million loan from the China Exim Bank that’s at the heart of the controversy. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo

The Chinese government is purportedly donating 300,000 doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to cover any remaining members of the force who aren’t fully vaccinated. But the use of Sinovac vaccines in South Africa is controversial and the SANDF denies the report by the amaBhungane Center for Investigative Journalism, reportedly based on minutes from a November meeting of the South African Military Health Service command council that facilitated the arrangement. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe tod

Chinese vaccine deliveries to Africa remain among the smallest and slowest of any region in the world, particularly compared to distribution in the Asia-Pacific region where almost a billion doses have already been delivered. So far, just 113 million doses have been sent to Africa, according to the latest figures from Bridge Consulting’s vaccine tracker report. Africa, to date, accounts for 9% of China’s global vaccine distribution. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings)

China’s ambassador to Tanzania, Chen Mingjian,  participated in a signing ceremony on Monday with Foreign Minister Joseph Sokoine  to mark the donation of 2 million RMB or $314,000 to the Tanzanian foreign ministry. The donation itself is unremarkable and, obviously, not a lot of money. What’s key here, though, is China’s increasingly important role in facilitating the day-to-day operations of foreign ministries across the continent, mostly through donations of buildings and training academies. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimit

Representatives from nearly two dozen African countries participated in a two-day China-Africa Innovation Cooperation Conference that  concluded on Monday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan . Some 15 joint technology and science initiatives were signed at the event. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Two-Day China-Africa Innovation Conference Wraps Up in Wuhan appeared first on The China Africa P

The Chinese and Ugandan governments collaborated in what appears to be an effort to jointly refute  last month’s Daily Monitor story  that falsely claimed the Entebbe Airport would be seized by China as part of a debt default.  Ambassador Zhang Lizhong led a donation ceremony on Friday at the airport  to hand over $45,000 worth of PPE materials to Transport Minister Fred Byamukama, who also denounced the allegations that China was engaging in “debt trap” lending in Uganda.  Interestingly, Byamukama seemed to endorse the Chinese take on this story that it was outsiders, specifically non-Africans, that are behind the Entebbe airport controversy. “Those who don’t wish African countries to grow well, they keep on making propaganda and formulating stories,” he said presumably alluding to Western countries. He failed to mention that the origin of this entire drama was a Ugandan media outlet that only quoted Ugandan sources. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected co

Work on the new international terminal at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos is almost done. In fact, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) says it’s 95% finished. Yet, the new facility is still not open and that has people in Nigeria’s largest city asking what is going on and why the last bit of construction has stalled. CCECC apparently stopped work after the Federal Government failed to pay its bills. “I think it has to do with some disagreements,” an unnamed source with the company told The Guardian newspaper.” Yes, part of the counterpart funding of $100 million from Nigeria has not been fully paid,” they added. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chin

Chinese contractors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kicked off an upgrade of National Route 1 (RN1), arguably the country’s most important highway. It  begins in the capital Kinshasa in the far West and snakes 2,000+ kilometers to the southern hub of Lubumbashi . The China Jiangxi company announced  that it would be refurbishing only a small 96-kilometer portion of the highway from Kinshasa to Batshamba.  The project is part of a larger $32 million agreement with two other Chinese contractors, Sinohydro and China First Highway Engineering Company, to upgrade different sections of RN1. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South.

Recent gains by Ethiopian government troops in pushing back Tigrayan opposition forces may have been helped  by the use of sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)  from Turkey, Iran, and China,  according to satellite photos seen by Al Jazeera . The role of the UAE is particularly important, because it might have provided a conduit for the Chinese-made Wing Loong II unarmed reconnaissance drones that have been spotted in Ethiopia. Analysts say the Wing Loong II is an especially potent tool as it can operate at much higher altitudes, well out of range of Tigrayan anti-aircraft weapons, and can serve as a precise target designator for short-range ballistic missiles, many of which incidentally have been imported from China. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Afri

The Wall Street Journal’s  report from December 5th  that relayed Pentagon concerns about China’s purported ambition to build a navy base on Africa’s Atlantic coast in Equatorial Guinea has now spread so far across the media landscape,  even to usually discerning publications like The Economist . This is increasingly turning the claim into an “established fact,” even though neither the U.S. government nor WSJ have provided any factual evidence to support the claim. The South China Morning Post stands alone as the only prominent international media outlet that sought a Chinese comment on the story.  The SCMP quoted “a source close to the Chinese military”  who noted that a base in EQ doesn’t make a lot of strategic sense. “It is too far away from China, doesn’t sit along China’s major maritime routes and even its oil, once extracted, is more suitable to be sold to Europe rather than back to China to maximize profits,” said the source quoted by the Hong Kong-based newspaper. This marke

A big-budget drama about Chinese medical teams working in a fictitious West African country during the 2014 Ebola outbreak is a huge hit with viewers in China.  The first two episodes of “Ebola Fighters” drew 16 million viewers and was the  fourth most-popular drama on television last week  — a notable accomplishment in a media market as large as China’s. Even though the show was filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak, the depiction of a deadly outbreak similar to what we’re all experiencing today apparently resonated with segments of the audience and may be part of the show’s appeal. “Closed doors, chaotic hospitals, and quarantined people,” one viewer wrote on Douban. “It recalls my darkest memories of the COVID-19 outbreak two years ago.” This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shapin

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni issued his first public comments about the media reports that incorrectly alleged the Entebbe International Airport is at risk of being forfeited to China.   “I don’t remember mortgaging the airport for anything,” President Museveni told Reuters over the weekend. “There is no problem, they will be paid,” he said refuting a story published in the Daily Monitor newspaper two weeks ago that falsely claimed the airport would be surrendered as part of a debt default.  (REUTERS) China is moving quickly to promote the adoption of its BeiDou Satellite (BDS) system in the Global South with new agreements this month in both South Africa and the Middle East.  On Wednesday, a group of Arab states signed an agreement to implement five BDS pilot projects in 2022 and 2023. This follows a similar arrangement with the South African National Space Agency that was signed earlier this month. BDS is a rival to GPS in the U.S. and the EU’s Galileo system and is a key compo

While Japan, France, and Kenya’s other major bilateral creditors are all giving Nairobi some breathing room during the ongoing pandemic in the form of reduced debt servicing payments, that is not the case with China. Last quarter, the Treasury transferred $266 million to Chinese creditors, mostly to the China Exim Bank, to fulfill its debt repayment obligations,  according to a report in Business Daily . Earlier this year, the Kenyan government  asked the China Exim Bank to extend a 6-month debt repayment holiday that expired on June 30th to run through the end of the year. When the bank refused,  Kenya opted to proceed with its full repayment  rather than to mount a challenge. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that

The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeHNA) is trying to reassure the capital’s beleaguered motorists that the nightmare traffic congestion caused by construction of the 27-kilometer Nairobi Expressway will soon be over.  KeHNA officials said this week that the work is now 70% complete  and China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) is planning for the new 4-lane toll road to open in March 2022. But there are mounting concerns over who will benefit most from this new expressway. Last month, Kenyatta University lecturer Laji Adoyo noted that the prohibition of matatus or minibusses that most commuters rely on to get around Nairobi means that the expressway “ may ease traffic woes – but mostly for the wealthy ” who have their own private cars. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends sha

With shipping containers in critically short supply, the cost of sending goods from China to South Africa has surged from  $1,000 a container to $8,000 . It’s a similar story in Southeast Asia,  where container prices have tripled to $3,000 each . And its consumers that are going to bear the brunt of those higher shipping costs. The United Nations Conference Trade and Development (UNCTAD)  warned the cost of imports will rise by 11% between now and 2023  unless disruptions in the global supply chain are resolved. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscrib

Chinese and Ugandan officials were on hand Wednesday to watch the first truck manufactured by the Uganda Automotive Group (UAG) roll off the assembly at the Namanve Industrial Park in central Uganda. The new factory is a partnership between UAG and China’s state-owned auto major First Automotive Works and part of the government’s plan to reduce, even eliminate imports of certain kinds of vehicles that can be locally made instead. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Alr

Popular Hong Kong travel YouTuber Torres Pit托哥 recently went to Johannesburg to find out why so many Chinese people have chosen to live in South Africa.  What’s interesting is how readily and openly Chinese merchants in Joburg’s comparatively small Chinatown opened up to Torres and answered his questions about their personal journeys from China to Africa.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Hong Kon

An agency affiliated with the DR Congo government issued its most forceful denunciation to date of the  Congo Hold-Up investigative report  that detailed massive corruption related to the $6 billion 2008 Sicomines deal. John Omombo (photo), spokesman for the semi-official Sino-Congolese Program Coordination and Monitoring Office (BCPSC) — the official government body tasked to oversee the implementation of the Sicomines deal — convened a press conference earlier this week in Kinshasa to refute the report’s central claim that  hundreds of millions of dollars flowed to former President Joseph Kabila, his relatives and associates . This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Af

For some inexplicable reason,  the Liberian Observer , one of the country’s leading dailies, published an article on Monday about China’s “disappointment” with Monrovia for joining 42 other countries at the United Nations  to sign a French-led statement “on the human rights situation in Xinjiang.” That story was notable because it marked one of the first times that an African country other than eSwatini, who still maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan, signed on to one of the regular joint statements led by either the U.S. or European countries criticizing China for human rights policies in Xinjiang. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Globa

The Chinese government and state media have picked up on the controversy that erupted last week when Professor Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University,  complained on Twitter  that the BBC had edited her comments on allegations of ‘Chinese debt-trap diplomacy’ in such a way that distorted her remarks. While the BBC later apologized to Brautigam,  blaming an “inexperienced producer ,” the story lit up Twitter, particularly among pro-China users critical of the British news organization’s coverage on topics related to Xinjiang. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China

China’s Ambassador to Botswana, Wang Xuefeng, led a post-FOCAC briefing of overseas Chinese diaspora from Africa to bring them up to speed on everything that happened at the conference in Dakar and just to make sure they’re all aligned when it comes to key issues like Xi Jinping Thought and “China’s reunification with Taiwan.” Some 200 participants in 30 African countries joined the online event last weekend. It featured a litany of speakers from the CCP, African studies departments in Chinese universities, and various Sino-African business organizations. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global So

Ebola Fighters (埃博拉前线) is a big-budget drama that premiers today on China’s largest streaming platforms. It depicts the efforts of frontline Chinese medical staff in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Watch the trailer (in Chinese). This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post The 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa is the Setting For a New Blockbuster Chinese Drama appeared first on The China Africa