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How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Growing Military Presence in the Middle East and North Africa
The latest U.S. National Security Strategy released this month singled out China as “America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge," and nowhere is that contest more on display than in the Middle East. After decades of fighting wars in the region and cozying up ...
Poll: More People Still Prefer U.S. Over China as Global Superpower, But to What Extent Depends on Where You Live
The divide between how people in wealthy advanced countries perceive China and those in poorer, less developed countries appears to be widening, according to the findings of a new year-long international poll conducted by the UK-based YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project. ...
No, Jackie Chan Didn’t Wear a T-Shirt Promoting Uganda’s First Son to Be “The Next President”
The fact-checking team at Pesa Check debunked a photo that's been circulating on Twitter and Facebook showing Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan purportedly wearing a t-shirt with a photo of the first son of Uganda, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, with the caption "The Next President."
Where Does Africa Fit in Xi Jinping’s New Foreign Policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined a more assertive foreign policy vision during his closely-followed address at the 20th Party Congress in Beijing last Sunday. He made it clear that China's new foreign policy priorities will focus primarily on competition with the ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Singapore Prime Minister Said There Is No Consensus yet About China Joining the Trans-Pacific Trade Pact CPTPP
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long said there is no consensus yet about China joining the trans-Pacific trade pact CPTPP. Although Prime Minister Lee said on Tuesday that he personally believes China would be able to meet the bloc's admission requirements, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell is on ...
Kenya’s New Transport Secretary Criticizes Previous Government’s Deals with China
This week’s confirmation hearing for Kenya’s new Transport Secretary included some revealing details about prominent Chinese projects like the recently inaugurated Nairobi Expressway. Kipchumba Murkomen reacted to widespread complaints about the tolls charged to use the road, a key part of its public-private partnership funding agreement with China Road and ...
Kenya Wants to Stretch Rail Loan Repayment Window to 50 Years
Kenya hopes to renegotiate the loan for its Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway to be repayable over fifty years, the country’s incoming Transport Secretary, Kipchumba Murkomen, said during his confirmation hearing this week. “We are choked by loans,” he said and argued a ...
Chinese Embassy Calls for Retreat from Nigeria’s Kaduna State
The Chinese embassy in Nigeria called for Chinese citizens to leave Kaduna state due to ongoing criminal attacks and kidnappings. This is only the latest such warning from the embassy, and Chinese diplomats have also met with Nigerian security officials to coordinate on security issues. 2022 has been a bad year for anti-Chinese ...
Chinese National Convicted of Illegal Mining in Nigeria
A Nigerian court sentenced a Chinese national to five years in jail (with the option of a fine of 1 million naira (about $2,300) for illegal mining. Gang Deng, who works for a Chinese mining company, was caught with 25 tons of unlicensed lepidolite, a mineral used ...
China is Now Zimbabwe’s Biggest Investor
Over the past three years, China invested over $2 billion in Zimbabwe and is now the Southern African country’s largest foreign investor. This was the main takeaway of a symposium on the economic benefits of Zimbabwe-China relations, which took place in ...
Chinese Building of Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base Speeds Up
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), a U.S. think tank affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, published satellite images appearing to show rapid progress in the Chinese-constructed Ream naval base in Cambodia, with land being cleared and construction underway. This ...
C’Mon Joe! You Gotta Show Up If You Want to Be in The Game!
U.S. diplomats in the Bangkok embassy are no doubt gnashing their teeth over reports that started to circulate this week claiming U.S. President Joe Biden plans to skip the upcoming APEC summit that's set to take place in the Thai capital next month.