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By Chen Yu Minerals like nickel, lithium, cobalt, and copper are foundational to the global clean-energy transition. Solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, and battery storage cannot be built without them. Yet extracting, processing, and transporting these “transition minerals” can be resource-intensive, ...
File image of workers directing truck traffic at the Chinese-owned Tenke Fungurume Mine, one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by EMMET LIVINGSTONE / AFP
By Chen Yu Minerals like nickel, lithium, cobalt, and copper are foundational to the global clean-energy transition. Solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, and battery storage cannot be built without them. Yet extracting, processing, and transporting these “transition minerals” can be resource-intensive, polluting, and ecologically destructive. ...
Indonesian Finance Minister Will Join Rail Debt Talks with China
Indonesia’s finance minister, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, will join a top-level delegation preparing to fly to China for debt-renegotiation talks on the Jakarta–Bandung high-speed rail project. Purbaya is joining the talks while Jakarta debates whether to commit any public funds ...
Landmark Report Tracks China’s Global Lending
The conversation about China’s rise as a global lender has been held back by two large trends. First, the data is hard to get and mind-numbingly vast. Second, studies tracking this data have so far tended to focus on the Global South in isolation, rather than putting ...
New Data: How Chinese Economic Shifts will Impact Africa
As China navigates a domestic economic downturn and a whipped-up global geoeconomic scene, its trade with Africa keeps changing. A new report by The Atlantic Council in collaboration with Rhodium Group projects how Chinese economic growth trends will affect African ...
Chinese versus U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in Africa
Deborah Brautigam, a prominent expert on Chinese global financing flows, responded to recent discussions about comparisons in Chinese and U.S. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa. It was sparked by a BBC report, which used 2023 data from the China-Africa Research Initiative, a platform pioneered by Brautigam, to ...
China E-Mobility Weekly Digest: From Pixii to Yango: Africa’s Next Wave of Electric Vehicle Innovation
This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EVs Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service. Changes in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and trade dynamics worldwide are unlocking business innovation. African countries, which largely lag ...