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...
Last Saturday, The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin examined the emergence of distinct...
An environmental watchdog organization has accused Chinese officials and businessmen of smuggling...
Xi Jinping’s first overseas tour as China’s president is set to commence this weekend. After a stop in Russia, President Xi will travel to Africa – a continent where Beijing’s influence is a subject of...
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...
In the Atlantic, Howard French, former Shanghai bureau chief for the New York Times, travels through Africa to explore the continent’s relationship to China: Even taking the recent global downturn into account, this has...
A lengthy investigative report in the Spectator on the poaching and destruction of African elephants in Tanzania points to Chinese smugglers: The next day we met Salim and another dealer, Daudi, at a petrol station. They got in...
Slate Magazine looks at the positive side of China’s investment in Africa: While the United States and Europe still loom large here as cultural and economic icons, China is making inroads into Africa in rivulets. In this...
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