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China E-Mobility Weekly Digest: Kenya’s Quiet EV Rise, Rwanda’s Flying Taxi, and China’s Car Boom in Nigeria

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EVs Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Across Africa, the electric vehicle (EV) market is as diverse as its geography and tariff jurisdictions; ...

Cambodia Defends China’s BRI Against Debt-Trap Accusation

China’s Belt and Road Initiative drew a forceful defense from Cambodia’s leadership this week, even as the accusations, mainly from the U.S. and its allies, over “debt-trap diplomacy” continue to shadow Beijing’s flagship infrastructure program. The phrase, coined in 2017 after ...

China and Pakistan Agree $7 Billion Rail Consortium

China and Pakistan reportedly agreed to create a $7 billion consortium to fund a joint railway project. The announcement also saw the unveiling of a four-year action plan to advance the next phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a major project in the Belt and Road ...

Vanuatu Pushes Back on China-Excluding Deal with Australia

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had to cancel the signing of a landmark treaty with Vanuatu because it would limit the Pacific island state’s infrastructure cooperation with China. The Nakamal Agreement would see Australia allocate AU$500 million (about US$330.3 million) for ...

How Chinese Fintech Is Overcoming Africa’s Limited Banks and Patchy Internet to Build Mobile Wallets for 1 Billion Users

At a bustling Lagos market, a fish vendor no longer worries about counterfeit bills—his PalmPay QR code brings instant payments confirmed by a Yoruba voice alert. In Johannesburg, a Chinese garment trader receives rand through Vodapay that lands in renminbi within minutes, bypassing costly bank delays. These ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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India-China Reset? Modi and Xi Test a Fragile Rapprochement

The reset between India and China appears to be holding. Nearly two weeks after President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin, five years of frigid ties between the two Asian ...

Pacific Islands Leaders Hold Summit Clouded by China Tensions

By Ben Strang Pacific Islands leaders hold an influential summit in the Solomons on Wednesday, with nations split over China's growing role in the region and alleged meddling in the meeting. Alongside its 18 member ...

China’s EV Exports Up as BEVs Beat Hybrids, Home Sales Slow

China’s electric vehicle exports jumped in August, with pure electrics, BEVs, pulling ahead of hybrids, a shift that could deepen trade tensions as Europe and the United States face a wave of low-cost Chinese models. Passenger car shipments abroad reached ...