Category: Diplomacy

With the Russian military now moving on Ukraine, the consequences of Europe's latest war are being felt around the world. Asian markets fell sharply today while oil prices shot up, crossing the $100 mark for the first time in seven years. ...

Soon after the conclusion of the Europe-Africa Summit in Brussels last week, Chinese media and scholars began to weigh in with their analysis of the gathering which, not surprisingly, was decidedly negative. All week, there've been a number ...

Chinese ambassador to Tanzania Chen Mingjian joined President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday to open a new political training academy located outside of Dar es Salaam. But unlike similar Chinese-financed academies in South Africa and Ethiopia that are primarily country-specific, ...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that senior diplomat Xue Bing, most recently the ambassador to the South Pacific island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG), will be China's first Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Xue's appointment ...

U.S. foreign policy towards Africa has been adrift for years, even decades, as Washington focused its attention on wars in West Asia, confrontations in the Persian Gulf, and a much-hyped Pivot to Asia. In fact, it's been 19 years since the launch of the 

By Kevin P. Gallagher and Cecilia Han Springer 50 years ago, from February 21-28, 1972, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visited Beijing, beginning the process of normalizing diplomatic relations between the US and China. In the Shanghai Communiqué issued during that historic ...

Last week's Europe-Africa summit largely passed unnoticed in China due largely to the fact that it coincided with the final days of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the extensive coverage related to the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Now, though, some analysis ...

Finance ministers and central bank heads from the world's twenty largest countries wrapped up their latest get-together in Jakarta on Friday without any meaningful progress on the burgeoning debt crisis in developing countries.  Instead, everyone seemingly blamed everyone else ...

U.S. government officials regularly criticize China for embracing African dictators in pursuit of Beijing's strategic interests, so it was a tad ironic to see photos and videos late last week of a high-level American delegation led by Washington's top diplomat Molly Phee so warmly received in an ...

When U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee met with Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo last week at the Presidential Palace in Malabo to try and put a stop to the building of a Chinese military base in the West African country, she ...

President Yoweri Museveni welcomed China's ambassador to Uganda, Zhang Lizhong, for a meeting in the garden at the State House in Entebbe. The occasion was ostensibly to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries ...

The latest Chinese-funded political training academy in Africa opened in Kibaha outside of Tanzania's commercial hub Dar es Salaam. Similar training academies have been built in Ethiopia, Tunisia and South Africa among other regions as part of ...