Day: March 15, 2022
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U.S.-Africa Summit Strengthened Relationship but Didn’t Revolutionize It
As the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit wraps up today, one is struck by a paradox: while several notable new deals were announced, the summit as a whole has been slightly underwhelming. The United States seemed determined to combat two interrelated narratives. First, ...
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Chinese State Media Strident on Summit
While the Chinese public seems disinterested in the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, China’s state media is rolling out the invective. The state-owned nationalist tabloid Global Times published two highly negative articles dismissing the summit. In ...
African Media Largely Indifferent to Summit
The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit has drawn very little media attention in Africa. The coverage that appeared was rehashed copy from international news agencies. Very few publications focused on how the outcomes will affect their home countries. This lack of domestic framing ...
Oh, the Talking Points: Why It’s Sometimes Better When U.S. Officials Leave China Out of the Africa Conversation…
At the outset of the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, one message was clear: African countries hate being made to ‘choose sides’ between the U.S. and China. So, U.S. officials were determined to avoid the appearance of making them do so. That meant steering away from China-related discussions as ...
That Viral Clip of Indian and Chinese Border Fighting Isn’t What It Seems
A video clip purporting to show last week's border clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers is going viral online. However, the news program India Today showed that the footage was actually shot during an earlier skirmish along the Line of ...
Aerial view of heavy air pollution from nickel processing industries covering the Weda Bay area on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, August 2024. (CGSP / Mas Agung Wilis Yudha Baskoro)
By Joan Aurelia In July 2024, then-president Joko Widodo said Indonesia must “become a global player in the EV supply chain.” He was speaking at the inauguration of a Hyundai EV and battery factory in Karawang, West Java, where government officials declared the country’s commitment to ...
Chinese Residents Swept Up in South African Immigration Raid
A number of Chinese nationals are now in custody following a large-scale inter-agency operation to crack down on undocumented immigrants in a poor neighborhood north of Johannesburg. In all, more than 400 people were detained, including 380 charged with immigration violations, according to news reports. ...
Chinese Embassy in Nigeria Warns Against Overstaying, Kidnapping, Organ Harvesting
Chinese diplomatic missions in Nigeria issued stern warnings to Chinese nationals in-country not to overstay their visas and to be more attentive to their personal security. The latter message also warned residents against the danger of kidnapping, saying that victims also face the danger of having their organs harvested. ...
Outlier or New Normal? Trends from the 2022 China’s Global Energy Finance Database Update
By Cecilia Han Springer 2021 saw persistent economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, narrowing borrowing capacities in developing countries, and a global trend towards phasing out coal. These factors converged in a shocking finding from the 2022 release of the China Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database, managed ...
Robbers Target Chinese Factory in Zimbabwe
Sixteen armed attackers robbed a Chinese-owned brick factory last week outside of Harare, injuring two employees, one Zimbabwean the other Chinese. No arrests were made as the assailants fled before the police arrived, according to a report on the Zimbabwe Chinese Network WeChat page. ...
Nairobi Expressway Workers’ COVID Woes
As Kenya eagerly awaits the opening of the new Chinese-built Nairobi Expressway, concerns about workers and costs are surfacing. The Nation newspaper reported that the contractor, China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has reportedly refused to let some workers return to their hometowns since March 2020. This ...
Kenya’s Artisans Decry Chinese Imports
Artisanal craftspeople in Kenya are complaining that they’re being edged out by cheap Chinese imports. The national broadcaster KTN’s report comes as Kenya tries to deal with its massive Chinese trade imbalance. Trade numbers show the country imported about $4 billion worth of goods from ...
Could China’s Grain Hoard Become a Geopolitical Tool?
Russia’s war on Ukraine is increasingly being hitting African food security, and raising political tensions in the process. For example, Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat and gets half of its supply from Russia and Ukraine. This is also true for Kenya, which imports 30% of ...
Chinese Motorcycle Factory Opens in Angola
A new Chinese motorcycle factory has kicked off in Angola, one of several new automotive ventures in African countries. The Chinese state-owned heave vehicle company Sinotruk announced a new $20 million assembly line in Tanzania, while China's First Automotive Works (FAW) has also started producing trucks in ...
South Africa’s SABC Tackles DRC-China Relations
While African broadcasters frequently cover Africa-China relations on talk shows, it’s rare to see African reporters covering the issue on location in other African countries. So it was notable to see South Africa’s state broadcaster, SABC News, produce a report from ...