Rajpriya Gautam

The Vice Minister of China’s powerful Commerce Ministry, Qian Keming, said Beijing will open its market to more African goods in an effort to redress the severe trade imbalances that China maintains with most African countries. Qian made the comments on Wednesday at a press conference  hosted by the State Council (China’s cabinet) in Beijing to brief the media on trade issues ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference that will take place at the end of the month in the Senegalese capital Dakar. 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...

Specific details about what will be on the agenda at the upcoming FOCAC conference have been rare. No official agenda has been published, which led observers to piece together the expected priorities based on statements and interviews with various Chinese officials. So, it was notable when China’s ambassador to Seychelles, Guo Wei,  sat for a lengthy interview with the official Seychelles News Agency  and laid out her expectations of what will be discussed in Dakar: 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...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang  delivered the keynote address this week at the 4th China-Africa Local Government Cooperation Forum  (CALGC), informally dubbed “local FOCAC.” The event brought together 300 stakeholders from cities, states, provinces, and other sub-national levels. Tuesday’s event was one of several fora convened in recent weeks as part of the build-up to the main FOCAC meeting in Dakar. 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?...

Every day leading up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference on November 29th and 30th, CAP will feature perspectives from journalists, academics, activists, and business leaders about what they hope will emerge from the FOCAC event in Dakar.   If you would like to participate and share your perspective, please email a short paragraph to CAP’s Africa Editor Cliff Mboya:  cliff@chinaafricaproject.com . 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 ...

A new Kenya-China Chamber of Commerce (KCCC) launched this week in Nairobi to help foster closer ties between the local Chinese business community and Kenyan stakeholders. The new group will be led by the Nairobi business executive Tim Chen, who said the main purpose of the group is to help foster closer people-to-people ties.  (THE STAR) Meantime, across town at the Sarit Convention Center, the three-day Shandong Export Commodities Expo got underway on Wednesday, with 20 Kenyan companies and 80 Chinese companies mostly from the northeastern province. Companies in the agriculture, manufacturing, and construction sectors are among the largest exhibitors.  (KENYA BROADCASTING COMPANY) 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 t...

China’s top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, Wu Peng,  t weeted on Tuesday  that Beijing remains committed to redistributing its share of the  International Monetary Fund’s recent issuance of $650 billion in new so-called “Special Drawing Rights”  (effectively the currency of the IMF).  The SDRs are allocated to each IMF member based on the size of their economy,  meaning that the wealthiest twenty countries will receive 80% of the total SDR allocation .  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 acc...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken  arrived in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday  to begin a three-nation, five-day Africa tour that will also take him to Nigeria and Senegal. While the worsening security situation in Ethiopia will top the Secretary’s agenda, it’s inevitable that he will also be confronted with questions about China’s growing influence on the continent and how the U.S. plans to respond.  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 subsc...