Category: Race

Hong Kong-based scholar Roberto Castillo is one of the world's foremost experts on the African diaspora in China and Chinese-Black race relations. Lately, he's become increasingly frustrated by the false equivalency that many are drawing between discrimination against black/brown people in the U.S. and China. ...

Wow. The ironies are popping up so fast they're going fractal.  As protests mount in the United States against the systemic and structural racism that has turned institutions like the police into something akin to occupying forces in certain neighborhoods, guess ...

Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo was not amused by U.S. National Security Council Robert O'Brien's accusation that Harare, together with China, is a "foreign adversary" of the United States and working to stoke discord amid the ongoing protests there.  ...

Journalists and foreign policy analysts are scratching their heads as to why U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien lumped together Zimbabwe with China as "foreign adversaries" who are using social media to stoke unrest and "sow discord" amid the ongoing protests across the United States.

After the past two months of anti-Chinese rage on African social media that came in response to the highly visible poor treatment of Africans in Guangzhou back in April, there's a certain irony to the Chinese government's embrace of the popular U.S. call to action "Black Lives ...

The Chinese government is steadily escalating its criticism of the United States over the ongoing protests against police brutality that are now taking place in dozens of cities across the U.S. While Chinese diplomats and embassies in Africa 

The ongoing violent unrest in dozens of U.S. cities to protest police brutality against African Americans is now emerging as a key theme in the U.S.-China narrative battle in Africa. China's state-run media outlets along with its diplomatic social media channels in Africa are publishing a steady ...

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa issued a public apology on Wednesday for his recent crackdown on Chinese merchants in the city and for using the derogatory word "Chinaman" alleging that he was unaware it's offensive. "I accept my error in judgment by ...

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa personally shut down a Chinese-run barbershop on Friday for allegedly not serving local customers and threatened the staff with arrest if they continue to only serve Chinese patrons.   "This is not Wuhan!" he angrily declared.

While African social media, Nigeria's legislature, and media outlets across the continent boil with rage over the reports of maltreatment and discrimination against Africans in China, some Chinese commenters are calling for more nuance in the debate. The fact that these ...

Let’s admit right up front that there are racists in China and let’s not pretend there wasn’t racial discrimination against Africans in Guangzhou --- although recent events there were much more than just an outright expression of discrimination against Africans and black people: it was also a ...

On April 8, a 15-person Chinese medical team ​arrived​ in Nigeria to assist with the country’s fight against COVID-19. The team brought with them more than a million masks, ventilators, Personal Protective Equipment and other pandemic essentials. It was another example of Chinese support for African ...