Day: July 28, 2022
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No International Reaction to China Protests, Beijing Formulating Counter Narrative
International reaction to the extraordinary public protests underway in the streets and university campuses across China has been muted so far. Aside from a scathing statement from the British Broadcasting Corporation over the violent detention of one of its reporters in Shanghai on Sunday, no other foreign entity has issued ...
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Journalists, Scholars Try to Make Sense of What’s Happening in China
Protests in China are not a new phenomenon. Every year, tens of thousands take place across the country. But those so-called "everyday protests" tend to be much smaller in size, localized and rarely challenge the core essence of the Communist Party, civil rights or Xi Jinping himself. ...
Chinese World Cup Broadcast Doesn’t Show Maskless Crowds
When Chinese football fans turned on their TVs to watch World Cup matches from Qatar, there was a sense of disbelief over how tens of thousands of maskless fans were all packed together in stadiums while millions of Chinese compatriots at home are still confined to their homes as ...
New Research Reveals China’s Overseas Investment Priorities: Asia is Tops, Africa is “Basically a Rounding Error”
New research reveals fascinating patterns in Chinese overseas foreign direct investment in the nearly twenty-year period from 2003 to 2021. Not surprisingly, Asia has been the preferred destination, followed by Latin America, most of which has gone to Brazil, Chile, and other resource-rich countries in South America. ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: A Military Stand-off Between a Chinese-Run Mining Company and the DRC’s State-Owned Mining Giant Gécamines Heading to Arbitration
A military stand-off between a Chinese-run mining company and the DRC's state-owned mining giant Gécamines is heading to arbitration. Congolese army forces took control of two of the Australian-based, Chinese-controlled company MMG's mines in Haute Katanga. After the company's appeals to Congolese authorities went unanswered, MMG is now ...
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion with lands aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland during flight deck operations in the Pacific Ocean. Image via the U.S. Marine Corps.
In this edition of M&M, I want to examine one of the most common claims not only in Vietnam’s foreign policy circle but also in that of the United States. The United States is a Pacific power with an extensive network of alliances and bases across the Indo-Pacific, and its exercise ...
China Faces Twin Pressure From U.S., IMF Over Debt Crisis in Sri Lanka
The Chinese government is under mounting pressure from both the United States and the International Monetary Fund to do more to help resolve the worsening debt crisis in Sri Lanka. Colombo owes Beijing an estimated $6.5 billion, about 13% of the country's total public debt, ...
Chinese Netizens Aren’t Keen to Bail Out Sri Lanka
While international calls grow louder for China to restructure Sri Lanka's debt obligations, a very different conversation is going on in Chinese media and online communities. Antara Ghosal Singh, an expert on Chinese domestic development and a fellow at the New ...
China Accuses U.S. of Trying to “Suppress” Its Influence in Africa
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian accused the United States of trying to suppress its influence in Africa in response to the latest criticism of Beijing by the U.S. military's top commander for Africa, General Stephen Townsend. ...
Why This New Chinese Cement Factory in Tanzania is So Important
Chinese cement major Huaxin broke ground this week on a new factory in Tanzania that is likely being seen as an important milestone for Chinese construction engagement in Africa. African stakeholders have long been frustrated that Chinese contractors import a lot ...
China’s AU Ambassador Conducts Site Inspection of New Africa CDC HQ Construction
China's ambassador to the African Union, Hu Changchun, led a site inspection this week of the Chinese-financed construction of the new headquarters of the African Center for Disease Control headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. While the project is being ...
The Many Questions Raised by Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
Sri Lanka’s ongoing debt nightmare is back in the headlines, with both the U.S. government and the International Monetary Fund calling for greater Chinese engagement. The controversy raises a few questions. First and most urgently, there are questions about the thinking ...