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Kenya’s New President Flips on China
Kenya and China will “expand relations on infrastructure, agriculture, education – among other broad arrays of issues – for the mutual benefit of our countries,” according to Kenya’s new President William Ruto. Ruto spoke during a meeting with China’s Special Representative for African Affairs, Liu ...
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Kenya's new President William Ruto, takes power at a complex time for the East African country. As Kenya's economy creaks under a large debt burden, he also faces numerous regional challenges, including conflict in Ethiopia and terrorism in Somalia. These challenges ...
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Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has poured gasoline on the controversy around the recent re-arrest of En (aka Aisha) Huang, a Chinese national accused of returning to Ghana to engage in illegal gold mining despite being deported four years ago for similar crimes. The ...
Xi’s Arrival in Kazakhstan Signals New Phase of Diplomacy
Xi Jinping is back. The Chinese President emerged from nearly three years of diplomatic hibernation on Wednesday when he landed in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan for a one-day visit ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit that will take place at the end of the week ...
More Developing Countries Choose to Stay Out of China’s Latest Spat With UN Over Human Rights in Xinjiang
China's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Chen Xu, read out a forceful rebuttal on Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council's latest report that documented human rights violations in Xinjiang. There was nothing new in Chen's statement as ...
Sri Lanka Calls On Same Financial Advisory Firm That Worked With Zambia on Debt Restructuring
The Sri Lankan government hired the boutique Paris-based financial advisory firm Lazard to negotiate on its behalf with bilateral creditors in China, Japan, and India, among others. If that firm sounds familiar, it's because it's the same company that was brought in to help shepherd the Zambian government through its successful ...
First Avocados, Now Coffee Beans… Kenya’s Expanding Agricultural Exports to China
A first batch of 2.04 tons of raw Kenyan coffee beans arrived in the southern Chinese city of Changsha this week, marking the opening of yet another new market for Kenyan agricultural exports in China. The shipment arrived on Friday on ...
Kenya’s New President Meets With China’s New Special Representative For Africa
China's newly-named Special Representative for African Affairs, Ambassador Liu Yuxi, represented Beijing at this week's swearing-in ceremony for Kenyan President William Ruto and the two later met for talks. No word on what was on the agenda.
China and the Race to Dominate EV Battery Supply Chains
A new movement is underway in the U.S. to strip China out of the global supply chain for electric vehicle batteries -- everything from the extraction of the minerals and metals to the processing of those resources to make the battery ...