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Under Mounting Pressure From the U.S., Europe, and Australia, China Leans on Its Ties in Africa For Support

Hong Kong-based CNN journalist Jenni Marsh reports on the prominent role that Africa played in Monday's speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the World Health Assembly. Marsh, who's covered China-Africa relations for years, notes that amid mounting anti-Chinese sentiment in Washington, Brussels, and Canberra, Beijing's political ...

World Bank President Frustrated About the Slow Pace of Private Debt Relief for Africa

World Bank President David Malpass said in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that he is disappointed that Africa's private creditors aren't doing more to provide badly-needed relief for poor countries struggling amid worsening economic conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (BLOOMBERG) ...

African Leaders Criticize Wealthy Countries For Lack of Progress on Debt Relief

Five African presidents, from Kenya, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Niger, decried the lack of meaningful progress by wealthy industrial countries on debt relief and financial assistance to the continent amid the worsening COVID-19 outbreak. The leaders took part in a ...

The Geopolitics of COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis is proving an interesting case study in the impact of different ways of conducting public diplomacy. Any public diplomacy is dependent on two factors: staying on message, and making sure that message doesn't play into negative perceptions about you in the wider world. 

Assessing China’s “Corona Diplomacy” in Africa

Even though China spends considerably less than the U.S. and Europeans on public health assistance in Africa, Beijing is seemingly dominating the narrative with its high profile donations of food, PPE, and medical missions.

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

China-Led Study Proposes Global Energy Network

A globally connected network of solar and wind energy could provide three times the global energy demand by 2050 at a lower cost than independent national power systems. This is the finding of a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Denmark.

The study focused on how areas with high solar and wind capacity (such as deserts) can be linked to ...