The Chinese government has been courting the Global South to advance its image as a responsible guarantor of international security and development. Last week, China took the initiative by hosting the first China-Horn of Africa...
This week, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary titled “Racism for Sale,” an investigation by Runako Celina and Henry Mhango into the Chinese video-making industry built on the exploitation of vulnerable Africans. Celina and...
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...
Some communities in Shanghai have embraced the viral trend of commissioning videos of dancing Africans sending well-wishes to Chinese residents in lockdown. The videos often feature groups of children or muscular African men...
Over the past two weeks, China has increased its engagement with countries in the Global South, partially in response to the war in Ukraine. China’s position on the war has been one of feigned neutrality in the form of “rock...
On March 18, President Joe Biden spoke for almost two hours with President Xi Jinping in the leaders’ first virtual meeting since November. The call addressed the Sino-US relationship and, most prominently, China’s stance toward...
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...
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...
China launched its first overseas military base in 2017 with the establishment of a strategic...
As China’s diplomacy, trade, and investment in African nations has increased in recent...
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
In the New York Times, Brook Larmer looks at Chinese businesses and immigrants in Namibia to...
Since the landslide election of pro-independence candidate Tsai Ing-wen as president of Taiwan...
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...
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