Day: June 1, 2023

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African Demand for Chinese Surveillance Technology

While many countries around the world, particularly G7 states, have largely outlawed the use of Chinese surveillance technology made by companies like Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision among others, that is not the case in Africa. Dozens of governments across the continent ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Arrives in Cape Town for BRICS Meeting, Qin Gang a No Show

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar arrived in Cape Town on Wednesday to participate in this week's planning meeting for the upcoming BRICS leaders summit in August. Qin Gang, China's foreign minister, will be noticeably absent, with ...

Kenya’s First Chinese-Funded, Built Geothermal Energy Plant Paves Way for More Similar Projects

Chinese funding and technology could help accelerate Kenya’s geothermal electricity generation helping the country shift entirely to renewable energy. The first Chinese-funded privately-owned power-producing company in Kenya, Sosian Energy, will start feeding electricity generated from geothermal steam into the grid ...

New Development Bank Wants to Finance More Projects Using Local Currencies Rather Than the U.S. Dollar

The New Development Bank (aka the "BRICS Bank") wants to reduce the use of the U.S. dollar when it finances projects in developing countries. The head of the Shanghai-based lender, Dilma Rousseff, told the bank's annual meeting this week that the ...

China, India Feud Intensifies as Both Countries Expel Nearly All Journalists From the Other Country

The Chinese government said it is taking what it described as "appropriate countermeasures" against India for expelling its journalists from the country. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters on Wednesday it would retaliate against New Delhi for last month's decision ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

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 ...

Only 8% of Chinese Have a Favorable View of India, Says New Tsinghua Univeristy Poll

The Chinese public is far more skeptical about relations with India than any of Beijing's other major rivals, including the United States and Japan, according to a recent poll conducted by researchers at Tsinghua University. Only 8% of respondents had ...

Scholar: Tense Sino-Indian Relations Now the “New Normal”

China's ties with India suffered a major blow when the two countries engaged in a brief, violent skirmish along their disputed border in the Ladakh/Tibet Autonomous Region in 2020 -- triggering a surge of mutual distrust that continues to roil ties to the present day.

Chinese Auto Major Geely Eyes Thailand to Build Regional Manufacturing and Sales Hub

Chinese auto major Geely, the country's fourth largest, is weighing a major expansion in Southeast Asia with the creation of a sales and manufacturing hub in Thailand. Thailand's Board of Investment met with five major Chinese EV makers, including Geely, during ...