Category: Public Diplomacy

China's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo handed over a donation on behalf of the People's Liberation Army to an officer from the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC). The donation of health supplies is part of a larger PLA engagement strategy to foster ...

Chen Xiaodong officially became China's ambassador to South Africa on Sunday, when he presented his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria. Newly-named envoys from Finland, Botswana, Ukraine, Pakistan, Sudan, and Sweden also presented their credentials yesterday.

China's top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, Wu Peng, issued the first comment by any Chinese official on the Zambian debt crisis since the country defaulted on a bond payment last Saturday. Wu noted the China Exim Bank's $110 million debt deferral deal that took ...

The Chinese embassy in Kinshasa announced that construction will begin soon on a new vocational education campus in Kowlezi, the capital of the southern Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The new 15,000 square ...

With physical trade fairs all shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese trade promotion authorities are experimenting with new virtual models. On Monday, a China-Africa virtual expo kicked off, reportedly with more than a thousand exhibitors from both regions and organizers say they're confident ...

Even though China is a central actor in the burgeoning African debt crisis, it's often hard to tell. Chinese stakeholders in this unfolding drama are notoriously silent when it comes to communicating their positions and signaling to the markets and other governments as to what their intentions ...

China's newly-appointed ambassador to Ethiopia Zhao Zhiyuan will take up his new post in Addis Ababa soon where he will replace Tan Jian who left his post last month in what was described as a regular rotation. But Zhao comes to ...

China's ambassador to Liberia, Ren Yisheng, made a pro forma visit this week to meet the new foreign minister, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah and, as is now customary, the embassy published a Tweet about the meeting. But what's unusual is ...

Washington's outspoken envoy to Nairobi, Kyle McCarter, denied that the U.S. is trying to use a free trade agreement that's currently being negotiated by the two governments as evidence that the Trump administration is trying to "catch up" with the Chinese in Africa. 

Wu Peng is the latest senior Chinese diplomat to get a Twitter account. Beijing's top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa is a late-comer to the "Twitplomacy" era that gathered steam last fall when dozens of Chinese diplomats, embassies, and state-owned enterprises started to use ...

New polling data from the Pew Research Center reveals that public opinion about China in advanced economies in Europe, Asia, and the United States have sunk to historic lows. "In most countries, around three-quarters or more see the ...

Ethiopia's envoy to the United States, Fitsum Arega, used the occasion of the United Nations 75th anniversary to renew a plea for urgent African debt relief that was first issued by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on March 24th.