Category: Stadium Diplomacy
Chinese Contractors Win Guinea Stadium Bid
The contractors, China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Corp. and China Construction International, won a $298 million contract to build a new soccer stadium in Guinea. While providing stadiums acted as a diplomatic tool for China in the Global South, this seems like a commercial transaction ...
A Lot Has Changed in China-Africa Relations But Not Beijing’s Passion to Build Stadiums
China improving its image in Africa by building sports stadiums is one of the hoariest cliches of Africa-China relations, but that doesn't mean it's not true. This week, Wu Peng, China's top diplomat for Africa highlighted a whopping eight ...
Stadium Diplomacy in Africa is Fashionable Again
Early on in China's engagement in Africa, the Chinese were big on gifting sports stadiums to African governments as part of their soft power diplomatic outreach on the continent. Later, Chinese infrastructure development shifted focus to larger, more conventional projects like bridges, railroads and highways but now ...
China's Stadium Diplomacy in Africa: Is It Worth It?
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/china-in-africa-podcast-3 If you are an African football fan then there is no better place to be these next few weeks than in the Gabonese capital Libreville where tens of thousands are ...