Day: October 12, 2020
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New Short Doc Showcases Black Lives in China
A compelling new mini-documentary, produced by the Beijing-based independent production company Arrow Factory, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of China's diverse Black community. A half-dozen expatriates share their personal experiences of what it was like to move to China, ...
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Construction Begins on New Chinese-Financed Vocational Campus in an Important Congolese Cobalt Mining City
The Chinese embassy in Kinshasa announced that construction will begin soon on a new vocational education campus in Kowlezi, the capital of the southern Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The new 15,000 square ...
New Chinese-Made Wing Loong II Attack Drones Arrive in Nigeria
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) marked the arrival this week of a pair of Wing Loong II attack drones from China. The Wing Loong II is among China's most sophisticated unmanned combat aerial vehicles, and can remain airborne between 26 and 31 hours. ...
Latest World Bank Debt Report Prompts Renewed Concern About Kenya, Ethiopia
Journalists and analyst have been poring through the World Bank's latest report on global debt that was published last month. Two African countries in particular, Kenya and Ethiopia, stand out. The report examined external debt accumulation among ...
It’s Eerily Quiet 24 Hours Before Zambia’s Bondholders Reveal Their Decision on Whether to Restructure the Country’s Debt
The Zambia External Bondholder Committee, a coalition of private creditors that own around 40% of Zambia's Eurobond debt, is expected to announce tomorrow whether they will approve the government's request for a six-month repayment delay on $3 billion of Eurobond notes. ...
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion with lands aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland during flight deck operations in the Pacific Ocean. Image via the U.S. Marine Corps.
In this edition of M&M, I want to examine one of the most common claims not only in Vietnam’s foreign policy circle but also in that of the United States. The United States is a Pacific power with an extensive network of alliances and bases across the Indo-Pacific, and its exercise ...
China’s Decision to Join COVAX Hints at a Multilateral Approach to Its Budding Vaccine Diplomacy Agenda
Friday's surprise announcement that China would join more than 150 other countries in the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, or Covax, marked a sharp pivot in Beijing's budding vaccine diplomacy strategy. Until last week, Chinese officials had resisted joining the WHO-backed vaccine alliance, hinting ...
IMF Chief: Africa Faces Projected Financing Gap of $345 Billion Through 2023
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva implored the international community to "do more to support Africa" to help recover from the worsening economic crisis on the continent brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. She said lenders and international NGOs have so far only ...
Kenya Advised to Restructure Current Debts, Reduce Commercial Borrowing if It Wants to Avoid Default
The Washington, D.C.-based multinational NGO International Budget Partnership (IBP - it was formerly known as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) recently warned Kenya's National Treasury to take drastic measures in order to avoid the bottom falling out of the economy due to the ...
Q&A: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Rejects Assertion That Washington is “Playing Catch-up” With Beijing
Washington's outspoken envoy to Nairobi, Kyle McCarter, denied that the U.S. is trying to use a free trade agreement that's currently being negotiated by the two governments as evidence that the Trump administration is trying to "catch up" with the Chinese in Africa.
China’s Top Diplomat for Sub-Saharan Africa is Now on Twitter
Wu Peng is the latest senior Chinese diplomat to get a Twitter account. Beijing's top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa is a late-comer to the "Twitplomacy" era that gathered steam last fall when dozens of Chinese diplomats, embassies, and state-owned enterprises started to use ...
African Debt: At Some Point, the Hole Becomes Just Too Big to Fill
The rapidly deteriorating financial crisis in Lebanon provides a grim preview to other developing countries of what happens when the bottom falls out of an economy. After the government defaulted on its debt last spring, conditions spiraled downwards to the point where