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September sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China  increased at the slowest pace in five months , providing fresh hints that relentless COVID lockdowns and a slowing Chinese economy may be taking a toll on the Chinese consumer. “The recovery trend is far lower than our expectation. The market is overall relatively weak,” said Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). … 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 With Sales Slowing at Home, Chinese EV Giant BYD Looks to New Markets...

Huawei will build a new satellite-based electronic monitoring system along sections of Nigeria’s 5,000-kilometer border in a bid to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and to provide early detection of security threats. Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola said last week that the Federal Government awarded the Chinese tech giant a contract to build the new surveillance system in the hopes that it will also be deployed at all of the country’s major land border crossings. … 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 Nigeria ...

Strong demand for electric vehicles around the world helped to triple profits at Chinese battery giant CATL, the world’s largest battery maker. The company is reporting that third-quarter profits for the year will reach $1.23 billion. CATL is going to use some of that money to buy a large stake in Chinese cobalt mining giant CMOC Group (aka China Molybdenum.) CATL announced on Monday that it will purchase a quarter of CMOC as part of a broader effort to ensure steady supplies of cobalt, lithium, and other raw materials needed to produce EV batteries. … 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...

Home Coming  led China’s National Day holiday box office bonanza, racking up $144 million in ticket sales during its first week of release. The holiday is usually marked with movies  aimed at patriotic audiences .  Home Coming  dramatizes the evacuation of Chinese citizens from Libya in 2011. Read the full article  on CGTN’s website … 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 Libya Blockbuster Leads China’s National Day Movie Releases <div class="cap-padlock"> <svg version="1.1" xml:spac...

The two Asian governments with the world’s largest Muslim populations, Indonesia and India, have been on the defensive in recent days for their  vote last Thursday at the United Nations Human Rights Council to block a discussion over Chinese human rights policies in Xinjiang . Human rights activists and Uyghur supporters in Indonesia were outraged by the government’s support, prompting an unusually spirited discussion on social media and in  national news outlets . There was widespread frustration in India as well, where  numerous commentators spoke out on what they perceive as blatant hypocrisy  by Muslim-majority countries who have been very vocal in their criticism of India’s treatment of its large Muslim minority population  while remaining noticeably quiet about the well-documented human rights issues in Xinjiang. … Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Afr...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe  informed parliament late last week that China had finally agreed to begin long-desired debt restructuring talks . During a recent visit to Tokyo, President Wickremesinghe also called on Japan, Sri Lanka’s other main creditor in addition to China and India, to co-chair a creditors’ committee  as part of an effort to finalize debt restructuring with all of its creditors by mid-2023 . But it’s not going to be easy given that none of Sri Lanka’s major Asian bilateral creditors appears to be prioritizing Sri Lankan debt relief.  Brad Setser , a prominent U.S. scholar on debt issues who is also a former U.S. Treasury Department official and  now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,  reflected on the burgeoning crisis in a multi-part Twitter thread on the challenge that Colombo now faces: … Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the ke...

Two of the lead researchers at Princeton University’s Arab Barometer public opinion survey project shared some additional insights about the findings from their 2021 poll on how people in the MENA region perceive the United States and China. Michael Robbins, director and co-principal investigator at Arab Barometer, along with Amaney Jamal, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, also a co-principal investigator, said in a column published in The Washington Post that increased familiarity among Arab publics is negatively impacting perceptions of Beijing: … 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 ...