Day: June 8, 2021
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For some inexplicable reason, the Liberian Observer, one of the country's leading dailies, published an article on Monday about China's "disappointment" with Monrovia for joining 42 other countries at the United Nations to sign a French-led statement "on the human rights ...
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A DRC-Government Affiliate Forcefully Refutes Congo Hold-Up Allegations, Calling the Report a “Western Conspiracy”
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Why the Era of Low-Cost Imports From China May be Coming to an End in Africa (At Least For Now)
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China Grabs on to Deborah Brautigam’s Frustration With the BBC
The Chinese government and state media have picked up on the controversy that erupted last week when Professor Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, complained on Twitter that the BBC had edited her comments on allegations of 'Chinese debt-trap ...
The Chinese Government Briefs Diaspora in Africa on FOCAC and Also Wants to Make Sure Everyone’s Sufficiently Patriotic
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Members of an artillery unit of the Vietnamese armed forces resist Chinese invaders along the 230-kilometer border line of the province of Lang Son with China on February 23, 1979. AFP
In this edition of M&M, I want to investigate one of the biggest myths in Vietnam-China relations – historical animosity. Many Vietnam watchers based in Vietnam and abroad often argue that because of the complicated history of China’s occupation and invasion of Vietnam, Vietnam will be deeply skeptical of Chinese intention ...
The Rapidly Changing Vaccine Distribution Dynamics: Asia to Get Millions of Jabs While Supplies in Africa Run Low
The politics of global vaccine distribution are intensifying as the world's major democratic powers mobilize their own "vaccine diplomacy" initiatives in a bid to compete head-on with China for influence in strategically vital regions, particularly in Asia. Both
China Now the Largest Source of Vaccines For African Countries
This month, a mere 12 million vaccine doses arrived in Africa, twice as many as the previous month, but still a fraction of what's required for a continent with a population of more than a billion people, according to new data from the Beijing-based ...
China May Be Providing More Vaccines to Africa Than Anyone Else, But That’s Not Saying Much
China's total vaccine deliveries to Africa increased slightly over the past week by just 300,000 doses to 20.3 million, according to the latest data from the vaccine tracking reporting compiled by the Beijing-based Bridge Consulting. Asia remains the ...
Botswana to Administer Second Dose of Sinovac Jabs
Frontline workers, elderly residents and others in Botswana who received their first dose of Sinovac vaccines back in March will be able to receive their second dose from today. Health officials also announced that second doses for those who received AstraZeneca jabs will be available as of ...
U.S. Concerns About Chinese Infrastructure and Debt Financing in Africa Date Back More Than Half a Century
Judd Devermont, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, noted in his daily Africa history Tweet that U.S. anxiety about Chinese infrastructure development in Africa is not a new phenomenon. In fact, as he remarked on Monday, ...
Checking In on Black Life in Shanghai in 2021
It's been a while since social media weighed in on the theme of Black life in China. The topic was immensely popular in the aftermath of anti-Black discrimination that occurred in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou last Spring, but faded in the second half of the ...
Can the G7 Imagine a Different Relationship With the World?
This week, the prominent Financial Times commentator Gideon Rachman argued that the upcoming G7 summit in Cornwall could be ‘the west’s last chance to lead.’ He acknowledged that the seven rich democracies that make up the group (the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Canada) have seen ...