Month: October 2022
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India’s Air Force Commander Provides New Details on the Hijacking Hoax Involving China-bound Airliner
New details are emerging about what happened when the captain of an Iranian airliner called in a bomb threat on Monday en route to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. In the end, it turned out to be a false alarm as ...
While More U.S. Companies Are Moving Production From China to India, Ford is Heading in The Other Direction
Apple is one of a growing number of international companies moving quickly to diversify its manufacturing operations away from China to other countries in Asia, particularly India. In fact, the Cupertino-based tech company announced this week that in just five months, ...
All Portuguese-speaking Countries Move Up in Chinese Infrastructure Development Index
All eight of the world's Portuguese-speaking edged higher in a key Chinese infrastructure development index that assesses the investment climate in 71 countries around the world. Brazil, Angola, and Portugal were the highest ranked Lusophone states in the 2022 "One Belt, ...
Sicomines’ Expat Staff in the DRC Mark China’s National Day With a Patriotic Song Competition
230 expatriate staff members from the Congolese joint venture mining giant Sicomines gathered over the weekend in the Congolese mining city of Kolwezi to celebrate the Chinese National Day holiday with a patriotic song competition. 15 contestants, most dressed in their work uniforms, belted out their renditions ...
What Does Kenya’s SGR Tell Us About the Future of Chinese Railway Development in the Global South
The Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya is one of the flagship projects of the Belt and Road Initiative. But the SGR like other Chinese-sponsored railway projects elsewhere in the Global South also serves as a prime example of the ...
China to the Rescue? China’s Liquidity Finance Should Be Welcomed but Not Gambled With
By Kevin P. Gallagher China is being criticized for stepping up its policy to provide liquidity financing in the form of loans and currency swaps for countries in distress for the wrong reasons. Providing such liquidity shows that China is ...
Blockbuster Set in Africa Dominates Chinese Box Office Over National Day Weekend
Africa is once again the backdrop for a glossy, big-budget Chinese patriotic blockbuster that dominated this weekend's National Day holiday box office with $37 million in ticket sales. "Home Coming" is a fictional recounting of the evacuation of some of the 30,000 ...
China Sends High-Level Public Security Bureau Official to DR Congo For Talks on How to Better Protect Chinese Nationals
The Chinese government recently dispatched a high-ranking member of the powerful Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for talks with security officials on how to better protect Chinese nationals in the country. Liu Jiingjie, head ...
Contrary to Public Perception, China is Actually Just a Bit Player in the African Mining Sector
While China is a major player in the DR Congo's mining sector, that is not the case elsewhere on the continent, according to a new report by the African Climate Foundation. In fact, China's share of the continent's total mining output was ...
Clarification: The Chinese Victims of Last Week’s Gun Attack in Karachi Were Pakistan Citizens, Not Dual Citizens
A number of international media outlets including Al Jazeera, Reuters, and the Associated Press, incorrectly reported last week that the three Chinese victims of a shooting attack at a dental clinic in the Pakistani port city of Karachi were dual nationals. This is not possible because dual nationality is not legal in ...
The China in Africa Podcast Recognized by the Carnegie Endowment as One of “The Best Foreign Policy Podcasts”
The podcast team at The China-Global South Project received a happy surprise over the weekend when our China in Africa show was named among "The Best Foreign Policy Podcasts" by the prestigious think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This is ...
Climate Sweet, Climate Bitter
Last week it was Pakistan, this week South Florida. The climate collapse is like a monstrous four-dimensional version of whack-a-mole. You never know where - or how - it will hit. But the hits keep coming. With the damaged Nord Stream pipeline (and ...