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Nigeria’s national union of textile workers is complaining about the complicity of customs officials in the flooding of the local market by Chinese textiles. While cheap imports from China have long been blamed for undercutting the local garment sector, the National Union of Textile, Garment, and Tailoring ...

Transsion Financial Disclosure Provides Rare Insights Into Its Booming Mobile Phone Business in Africa

Shenzhen-based African mobile phone giant Transsion provided a rare glimpse into its financial performance in a disclosure document that went out to 244 Chinese institutional investors. Even though Transsion is a publicly-traded company on the Shanghai Star Exchange, it nonetheless behaves like a lot of Chinese firms by ...

Understanding the Middle East’s Unique Opportunities and Challenges for China

China is rapidly escalating its relationships with countries in the Middle East. However, the region still represents a tricky set of challenges for Beijing. So argues Andrea Ghiselli, a prominent watcher of China-Middle East relations at Fudan University in Shanghai. Ghiselli writes that China’s ...

China’s ASEAN Ambassador Warns U.S. About the Dangers of Encircling China the Way NATO Did With Russia

Chinese anxiety about being encircled by the United States and its allies goes back decades but is taking on a new urgency today amid the ongoing war in Eastern Europe. Almost immediately after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Chinese officials began to draw stark parallels between what it ...

Japan Wants to Keep India in the Quad, Aims to Enlarge the China-Containing Bloc, Says Former PM

Keeping India in the Quad is crucial, even though New Delhi has so far refrained from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The Quad (short for Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) is made up of the United ...

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How to Lure Chinese Financing Back to the Global South: Report

Global South countries face increasing financing pressure, endangering their ability to keep developing while also implementing measures to deal with a growing climate crisis. The disruption of global trade is coupled with a larger megatrend: flows of international capital to the developing world have turned negative. This means that countries are now routinely paying more to service loans than they receive in disbursements.

The vast majority of Global South borrowers ...

All Smiles as DR Congo’s New Ambassador Takes up Duties in China

François Nkuna Balumuene, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s new ambassador to China, presented his credentials to Hong Lei, the Director-General of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week. The new ambassador has wasted no time in making courtesy calls to Chinese ...

Chinese Embassies in Africa Commemorate the Lives Lost in African Infrastructure Projects 

Chinese embassies in several African countries this week commemorated Chinese personnel who died while building African infrastructure. The occasion was this week’s Qingming (Tomb-Sweeping) Festival (清明节) when people clear the graves of relatives to remember the dead. The Chinese embassy in Equatorial ...