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 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...
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...
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...
Last week, the Solomon Islands erupted in protest. Rioters in the country’s capital, Honiara, torched numerous buildings in Chinatown, ransacked a police station, and defied government lockdown orders. Despite being met with...
China has announced plans to develop Arctic shipping routes through ice opened by global warming....
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts, the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief and current...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The opaque ownership structure of HNA Group Co., Ltd., a Hainan-based conglomerate that has since...
Over the weekend, Beijing hosted an international conference to promote its “Belt and...
In the New York Times, Brook Larmer looks at Chinese businesses and immigrants in Namibia to...
At The New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradsher look at how China’s global...
In December 2014, ground broke for the Nicaragua canal project, which is being built by Chinese...
Since a Chinese firm last year won the concession to build, design, and oversee a $40 billion...
Micah Zenko interviews Elizabeth Economy and Michael Levi about their new book By All Means...
At Brookings, Yun Sun explores the heated debate around China’s presence in Africa which...
Search and rescue teams in France are still looking for the bodies of Chinese billionaire Lam Kok,...
After Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved plans for a Chinese company to build and...
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