Recent reports from several think tanks detailed the important role of the media in framing—and at times, facilitating or limiting—Chinese influence across Africa. These reports highlight the CCP’s growing efforts at...
Votes are currently being tallied for Tuesday’s presidential election in Kenya, in which relations with China comprised a major campaign theme. The two main candidates, former deputy president William Ruto and former prime...
Last week, the U.S.-based think tank National Bureau of Asian Research published a roundtable edition of its Asia Policy journal that shared African perspectives on the China-Africa relationship. One essay was written by...
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...
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...
A recent exposé by Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation details a host of risks to Kenyan sovereignty...
Freedom House released its annual “Freedom on the Net” report on Thursday with the...
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...
This week, 45 Taiwanese citizens were deported from Kenya to China after several were acquitted on...
Early this week, news broke of eight Taiwanese nationals being flown from Kenya to mainland China...
Before departing for his trip to Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, and Ethiopia, where his ministers have...
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
In what some viewed as a snub the the U.S., new Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta paid his first...
Following a series of damaging stories this year, notably the ousting of Bo Xilai and escape of Chen Guangcheng, The Atlantic’s Damien Ma argues that “for all the financial muscle thrown behind shaping its global...
Chinese environmental activist Ma Jun and Ikal Angelei, a Kenyan campaigner against a China-backed dam in Ethiopia, are among the recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize. From the Goldman Prize’s...
The appetites of newly wealthy Chinese for ostentatious luxuries are fuelling elephant poaching across Africa. At Vanity Fair, Alex Shoumatoff writes that in the illegal ivory trade, “all roads lead to Guangzhou”: In...
International Rivers has confirmed that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is backing Ethiopia’s controversial Gibe 3 dam, whose generating equipment is to be provided by the Dongfang Electric Corporation. While...
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