Day: October 6, 2020
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Q&A: Can African-Sino Agri-Health Cooperation Champion Green Recovery?
For a moment it would seem that climate change has taken a backseat in the midst of a global pandemic, yet we are increasingly seeing the need to make linkages between COVID-19 response and climate action policies. What has been termed as “green recovery” refers to ...
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Weaponizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Since its inception in 2013, Chinese government officials have insisted that the Belt and Road is solely an economic initiative and does not have any military motivations. But the BRI's civil-military distinction is no longer as clear cut as it used ...
Africa’s Strategic Mineral Deposits Now at the Center of an Increasingly Fraught Great Power Competition
Iron ore, tantalum, cobalt, coltan, and a handful of other strategically important minerals and elements are at the center of an increasingly heated battle for the control of global supply chains among the world's largest economies. Leaders in Europe and the ...
Lots of Great China-Africa Webinars Scheduled for October
Although we may be a bit fatigued from all the Zoom calls and webinars that now fill our calendars every week, try not to miss some of the China-Africa themed events over the next few weeks. This week, Quartz Africa Editor ...
The U.S. Thinks It Has a Chance to Take on China’s Powerful Policy Banks
Conservative Republicans in the United States had long wanted to cut funding for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, calling it government-subsidized "corporate welfare." But as they're becoming more concerned about competition from China, many of those same Republicans are changing their tune and persuading ...
Environmental activists from Wahana Lingkungan Hidup (WALHI) organization wearing orangutan masks unfurled banners and posters during the International Action Day of Protest Against Bank of China in Jakarta, Friday, March 1, 2019.(Photo by Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto) (Photo by Aditya Irawan / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
A Chinese-backed hydropower project in Indonesia is emerging as an example of a growing challenge in Beijing’s overseas investments. Compliance with host-country regulations may no longer be enough to shield projects from disruption, scrutiny, or reputational risk. The Batang Toru hydropower project is a major ...
Africa’s Strategic Mineral Deposits Now at the Center of an Increasingly Fraught Great Power Competition
Iron ore, tantalum, cobalt, coltan, and a handful of other strategically important minerals and elements are at the center of an increasingly heated battle for the control of global supply chains among the world's largest economies. Leaders in Europe and the ...
Lots of Great China-Africa Webinars Scheduled for October
Although we may be a bit fatigued from all the Zoom calls and webinars that now fill our calendars every week, try not to miss some of the China-Africa themed events over the next few weeks. This week, Quartz Africa Editor ...
The U.S. Thinks It Has a Chance to Take on China’s Powerful Policy Banks
Conservative Republicans in the United States had long wanted to cut funding for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, calling it government-subsidized "corporate welfare." But as they're becoming more concerned about competition from China, many of those same Republicans are changing their tune and persuading ...
Development Finance and Chinese Identity
The women-focused China podcast NüVoices this week features an interview with Yunan Chen, a senior research officer at the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute where she is one of the world's leading analysts on Chinese development finance in Africa.
World Bank Chief Renews Criticism of China and Private Creditors For Not Doing Enough on Debt Relief
In a candid interview on Monday with the German state-owned television network Deutsche Welle, World Bank President David Malpass renewed his criticism of China and private creditors for not doing enough to help ease the debt burdens of the world's poorest countries and also for not being ...
StarTimes and DSTV Battle For Audiences in Africa’s Intensely Competitive Pay TV Market
One of the revealing aspects of Africa's pandemic-related downturn is that, while it's causing financial chaos across the continent this doesn't seem to be slowing the outside interest in certain African consumer sectors. Take TV, for example. For a long time, ...