Last week, the Zambian government announced that its creditors—a coalition of French and Chinese lenders that includes China Exim Bank—would cancel $2 billion of the country’s $17 billion external debt. The landmark debt...
China’s media elites are searching for new ways to tell China’s story abroad, and local researchers have taken note. Last week, the National Bureau of Asian Research, a U.S.-based think tank, released a report titled “Political...
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
This week concluded the 2021 meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Hosted this time in Dakar, Senegal, the triennial summit has historically brought together Chinese and African heads of state in a public...
Xi Jinping’s call in 2013 to “tell China’s story well” accelerated an existing trend of Chinese media fanning out across the globe to strengthen the country’s external propaganda and international discourse power. Media outlets...
The following post is republished from the Power3.0 blog, with permission: The Imitation Game:...
Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the world’s largest infrastructure investment project to...
Beijing continues to prioritize China-Africa ties, especially in investment, with Xi Jinping...
As part of a special series on Chinese investment in Africa for the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan...
In the New York Times, Brook Larmer looks at Chinese businesses and immigrants in Namibia to...
The Washington Post’s Laura Seay discusses China’s presence in Africa with Howard...
As China increases investment and ties with various African nations, the government is also...
The Guardian’s Africa correspondent David Smith reports that China will soon send 700 combat...
During the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Barack Obama took a veiled jab at...
Howard French, author of China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New...
According to a recent government white paper, more than half of China’s $14.4 billion in...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
At HuffPost Live, journalist Howard French speaks about the themes in his book...
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