Day: August 20, 2021
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Erdogan Tours Africa Sounding a Lot Like a Chinese President
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday, the second leg of his three-nation, four-day tour of Africa. While the primary focus of his visit to Nigeria will be to foster closer commercial ties with Ankara's largest trading partner on the continent, the ...
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African Iron Ore Exporters Keep a Wary Eye on China’s Falling Steel Output
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It Looks Like the U.S. and Europe Are Now More Worried About China’s Growing Influence in LatAm Than Africa
The Daily Mail's sensationalist headline today ("China's take-over in America's back yard") speaks to the mounting concern in U.S. and European capitals about China's growing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. This latest wave of anxiety, ...
China’s Climate Role in the Global South
I don't know about you, but I'm suffering from COP26 stress. There's so much riding on the global climate summit happening in Glasgow at the end of the month that it's sometimes difficult to remember we face a few other pressing issues too.
The Messy Politics of Building a Railway in Kenya With Chinese Money
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the showcase in Africa for China's debt-led infrastructure development drive. While critics accuse China of saddling Nairobi with unsustainable levels of debt to build the rail line that goes from the port of Mombasa to ...
Employees work at an assembly line producing car smartphone holders at a plastic accessories factory, as rising oil prices drive up production costs for plastic manufacturers, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, April 2, 2026. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
By Minwoo Park, Kaori Kaneko and John Geddie An 'eco-friendly' range of paper tubes and pouches touted by Yonwoo, a South Korean maker of packaging for cosmetics, has reaped unexpected benefits from the Iran war, which has disrupted supplies of the plastic needed to turn ...
Why Afghanistan Isn’t Taiwan
By Hugo Jones and Lukas Fiala This week the world watched in real-time the Afghan government collapse, the Taliban’s rapid capture of Kabul, and scenes of abandonment at the capital’s airport. Afghans clinging on to a U.S. Air Force plane in ...
Week in Review: Crime, COVID and Cables
The Facebook-led 2Africa undersea data cable initiative announced that it will add three more countries to its list of landing sites across Africa. Seychelles, Comoros, and Angola will all be connected to the billion-dollar, 37,000-kilometer cable that will connect Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. In what is ...