Day: March 8, 2021
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China Grabs on to Deborah Brautigam’s Frustration With the BBC
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The Chinese Government Briefs Diaspora in Africa on FOCAC and Also Wants to Make Sure Everyone’s Sufficiently Patriotic
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Wang Yi Press Conference Provides Insights Into China’s Foreign Policy Agenda in the Year Ahead
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave a wide-ranging press conference in Beijing yesterday on the sidelines of the ongoing National People's Congress, the annual rubber-stamp parliamentary event, that provided some of the clearest indications to date as to how Chinese foreign policy is going to ...
Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Nationals in Africa Will Receive COVID-19 Vaccines
China will launch a new program to provide millions of COVID-19 vaccines to its nationals in Africa and elsewhere overseas, according to Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Wang added that Chinese expatriates would be vaccinated either by a Chinese-made jab or one from another country, but either way, ...
Online Tool: COVID-19 Chinese Vaccine Distribution Tracker
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China’s #2 at the Embassy in Zimbabwe Gets in a Twitter Feud Over Vaccines With Opposition Youth Leader and Media
The outspoken Minister Counsellor (similar to the role of Chargé d'Affaires at other embassies) at the Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang, got into a high-profile Twitter smackdown with a youth leader from the opposition MDC Alliance over the efficacy of Chinese-made vaccines.
The Economist Intelligence Unit Mapped Out Chinese Trade and Investment in Africa
The London-based Forecast Director for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Agathe Demarai, has been posting quite a bit lately on China-Africa issues, albeit with varying degrees of accuracy (her assertion that Africa as a continent had a Chinese debt problem is not correct, for example) ...
South African Retailers Under Pressure to Ensure Supply Chains Free of Xinjiang Cotton
South Africa's major retailers are under scrutiny from civil society groups to ensure their supply chains do not contain any apparel products that use cotton from China's Xinjiang autonomous region. There are well-documented concerns that Uyghur minority populations are forced to pick cotton by hand.
Anti-Colonial Liberation Ideology Still Very Important in the Chinese Framing of Its Ties With Africa
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunyin posted a tweet on Sunday that reveals how important the anti-colonial liberation struggles of the 1960s and 70s are in today's framing of Beijing's ties with Africa. With the ascendency of President Xi Jinping as ...
China, Africa and the Internet, Again
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