China has extended its dominance at home and abroad over critical minerals that are essential to future high-tech and renewable-energy industries. Amid intensifying geopolitical competition, Western countries are increasing...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
Before departing for his trip to Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, and Ethiopia, where his ministers have...
The Wall Street Journal examines the global trade in fake, counterfeit and otherwise substandard malaria medication, in which China and particularly Guangzhou’s African community appear to play a substantial part. From...
The BBC reports on the extradition of Chinese nationals who have been making an illicit living in Angola: Angola has extradited 37 Chinese nationals, accused of extortion, kidnappings, armed robberies and running prostitution...
China seems to have taken a symptom of their real-estate bubble with them in their continued investment in Africa. Over the last three years, state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (中国中信集团公司) has built...
The Economist investigates the China International Fund, a shadowy Hong Kong-based syndicate accused of a range of misdeeds. These include corruption, profiteering with African natural resources while breaking the terms of...
Trade and investment ties between China and Africa have resulted in closer political relations and greater cross-cultural exposure. CurrentTV takes a look at the growing Chinese presence in Angola, via Africa Is a...
Angola’s Business is Booming with China While the exact loan amounts are unknown, media reports have indicated Angola has taken between $4bn and $11bn in loans from China in recent years. Trade between the two nations is...
From AllAfrica, Chinese Investments in Nigeria: (July 3, 2008) In recent times, quite a lot has been said and written about the presence of Chinese investors in Africa . The West is clearly worried not just about the rate of...
The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations today published an interview with Paul Collier, currently Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Formerly he was...
AFP reports that the ship carrying weapons originally headed for Zimbabwe from China, which has been forced to return home, has been allowed to dock in Angola: Angola has given authorisation for a Chinese ship loaded with arms...
From Bloomberg: Angola was the top supplier of crude oil to China in the first quarter, ahead of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman and Russia as the world’s second-biggest energy user boosted purchases to ease a domestic shortage....
On China Dialogue, Nigerian journalist Godwin Nnanna writes about prospects for Chinese corporations in Africa in light of the recent attack on Chinese oil workers in Ethiopia: China’s rise in the continent’s energy sector has been astronomical in scale. In the last five years, the Chinese presence in Africa has gone from insignificant outpost to […]
From the BBC: One of the worst of the countless conflicts that has blighted Africa in recent times is that of Angola. But a peace deal signed four years ago – and huge oil reserves – are now giving the Angolans hope as the country tries to rebuild its devastated infrastructure. Recently China, scouring the […]
From Sapa-AFP, via the Mail and Guardian: Angola plans to begin rebuilding its roads destroyed in the 1975-2002 civil war, starting with a 300km stretch between the capital Luanda and the northern agricultural and mining province of Uige, the national road body said on Tuesday. China has granted Angola a $211-million loan to finance the […]
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