Analysis
Diverse voices, unique insights on key issues shaping China’s engagement throughout the Global South.
analysis
3…2…1: Party Congress
By Lukas Fiala ‘China will not close its door to the world; we will only become more and more open.’ With the benefits of hindsight, Xi Jinping’s remarks at the 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) on October 18th, 2017 seem ...
The New Cold War Raises Climate Fears
The U.S.-China relationship's long slide into enemy-ship has now been formalized: we're in a new cold war. This isn't news exactly, but the way the Biden administration made this division the main structuring principle of its new National Security Strategy is ...
Biden’s National Security Strategy Formalizes New Cold War
The Biden administration’s newly released National Security Strategy sketched a dark vision of the 2020s as a decade when “he terms of geopolitical competition between the major powers will be set.” The release of the strategy document was delayed due to the Ukraine invasion. It incorporates many ...
Apple’s Plan to Shift More Manufacturing From China to Elsewhere in Asia Takes Shape
Since the beginning of the year, there's been a steady drip of news coming from Apple about its plans to gradually end its decades-long reliance on China to manufacture the bulk of the company's products. First, there was word that
The SCO Reaches the Mediterranean
By Leonardo Bruni Iran joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has led to a flurry of analyses from across the wider Mediterranean. Divergent perspectives emerge between foreign media coverage, which emphasize international security implications, and what domestic Iranian media reports that ...
Netting Investment Flows? Why Aquaculture Has Been Slow to Catch on in Chinese Overseas Investment
By Rebecca Ray China’s demand for imported seafood is booming, projected to double by 2030. Domestically, consumer demand is primarily satisfied by aquaculture, the raising of aquatic plants and animals for food, but the sector has stagnated as the Chinese government tightened environmental regulations. Its deep-water ...
Somalia Voted With China’s Critics at the UN Human Rights Council to Initiate a Debate on Xinjiang. But Why?
Somalia was a standout last week when it was the only African country and the only Muslim-majority country to back a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council that called for a debate over China's human rights policies in Xinjiang.
Netting Investment Flows? Why Aquaculture Has Been Slow to Catch on in Chinese Overseas Investment
By Rebecca Ray China’s demand for imported seafood is booming, projected to double by 2030. Domestically, consumer demand is primarily satisfied by aquaculture, the raising of aquatic plants and animals for food, but the sector has stagnated as the Chinese government ...
Sorry, Mr. Minister, China Isn’t Going to Finance Your Railway
Nigeria's Transportation Minister Mu'azu Sambo made a remarkable statement during a press conference on Friday. He is apparently still waiting for the China Exim Bank to come through with funding to build a pair of very expensive, multi-billion dollar railways. ...
Massive Supply Chain Disruptions Expected on Key China-Africa Trade Route Due to South African Labor Unrest
Key strategic resources exported via South African ports to China are expected to face severe disruptions in the coming days and weeks in response to the declaration of force majeure by SA's state-run logistics operator Transet in response to the escalating labor strife with its ...
Locating the Global South in China’s Party Congress
By Lukas Fiala and Hugo Jones We’re fairly accustomed to observing how the issue of China feeds into elections across global south countries. China is a political football, often framed as a problem that needs to be dealt with and low-hanging ...
China Wades Into Uganda-EU Oil Pipeline Dispute
China has sided with the Ugandan government in condemning the European Parliament’s September call to pause the building of a 1,443-kilometer oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania. Zhang Lizhong, China’s ambassador to Uganda, said the EU “should not use the excuse of environmental ...