People of the Week: Old Friends of the Chinese
Zhōngguó rénmín de lǎo péngyou 中国人民的老朋友 Old Friends of the Chinese People Official parlance for...
Zimbabwe
Spreading Soft Power Through Language in Africa
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
The Tide is Changing for Chinese in Africa
In the New York Times, Brook Larmer looks at Chinese businesses and immigrants in Namibia to...
Howard French: Is “China in Africa” Something to Fear?
The Washington Post’s Laura Seay discusses China’s presence in Africa with Howard...
Is Zimbabwe’s Economy Clenched In China’s Fist?
The Telegraph’s Fraser Nelson reports on China’s growing influence in Zimbabwe, which has been construed as a mockery of Western sanctions: In Zimbabwe, the press is full of signs of China’s growing influence. There...
The Queensway Syndicate and the Africa Trade
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...
Human Rights Last
For an article in Foreign Policy, Gary Bass interviews numerous Chinese Foreign Ministry officials and asks them about China’s diplomatic relationships with leaders of Zimbabwe, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, and other...
Zimbabwe Cargo Plane Crashes In China, Killing 3
AP has details about the cargo plane crash at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport: A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai’s main international airport, killing three crew...
Al Jazeera: China Buys the World
In a week-long series titled “China Buys the World,” Al Jazeera looks at “China’s global expansion, and what it means.” The website includes a number of reports and videos focusing on China’s...
Zimbabwe Says China Is Giving It Loans
From the New York Times: Defense Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who ran Mr. Mugabe’s violent re-election campaign last year, was himself leading a delegation of officials from the governing party, ZANU-PF, in Beijing on Tuesday....
UN: Zimbabwe May Have Received Chinese Weapons Via Congo
From VOA: The United Nations says it has “credible information” that Zimbabwe may have received Chinese weapons by way of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. Security Council says Boeing aircraft delivered 53...
China Helps Fight Cholera in Zimbabwe
From BusinessDay (Zimbabwe): China has promised to assist Zimbabwe with the latest crisis to hit the beleaguered African nation: a severe cholera outbreak. China has pledged $500,000 of vaccines for Zimbabwe. Reuters has...
China Tells Mugabe “To Behave”
Excerpts from this recent Telegraph article also supports the observation that news reports of China’s activities in Africa have dramatically decreased in the run-up to the Olympics. A demand by China that the Zimbabwean...
Why Has China Bought Mugabe a Mansion?
In an opinion piece in the Telegraph, columnist Christopher Booker writes: It may not be surprising that, as befits any mad dictator, President Mugabe is now the proud owner of a palatial £4.5 million mansion in Harare and a...
China’s Hands-off Foreign Policy a Collapse of Creativity
Howard W. French, senior writer for the New York Times, comments on China’s non-interference policy as demonstrated lately in its veto of sanctions on Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and its opposition to a warrant sought by...
China in Africa Round-up 07.17: Genocide By Proxy, Colonization Denied, and Anger Over Ivory
New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof applauds the International Criminal Court’s recent request for an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, and turns his sights on China: If China continues...
China Gets Permission to Import Ivory From Africa
For background on this story, please see the previous CDT post, UN May Legalize Ivory Sales from Africa to China. From Reuters: China won the right at a U.N. wildlife meeting on Tuesday to import elephant ivory from Africa under...
China Vetos UN Sanctions on Zimbabwe
Below are excerpts from press coverage of China and Russia’s veto of a UN attempt to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and some of his key allies. From the Guardian: British and US efforts to...
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