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Fact-Checking a Claim That Nigeria Threw Away More Than a Million Doses of Chinese Vaccines
The investigative team at the Chinese news site The Paper.cn published a fact-checking report that debunked accounts circulating on Chinese-language Twitter that Nigeria had destroyed more than a million doses of Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines. Last December, Nigerian authorities did, in fact, ...
The Hidden Debt Problem Extends Far Beyond China
The global discussion of the growing debt crisis in some Global South countries has been frustratingly slanted around the assumption that Chinese lending is particularly opaque. This is not to say that Chinese lending isn’t opaque – it is. In fact, some Chinese loan contracts are so ...
Xinhua Joins the Fight Over Allegations of Labor and Environmental Abuses by Chinese Companies in Zimbabwe
China's state-run news agency Xinhua pushed back against a January 7th report in The Guardian (UK) newspaper that claimed the Chinese-owned Jinding mining company is requiring 50 families in rural Zimbabwe to move so as to make way for a granite polishing plant.
High-Level U.S. National Security Delegation Pitched Tshisekedi a “Different Development Model” Than China’s
A high-level delegation from the United States met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa on Friday, in what appears to be an effort to try and loosen China's increasingly tight grip on the Congolese mining sector. The ...
Chinese Media Claims More Than a Million Passengers Have Used the New Chinese-Built Railway in Laos
According to Chinese state media, the new Chinese-built and funded railway between China and Laos, which was launched two months ago, is a huge success already. Rail authorities in China's southwestern Yunnan province report that in the short time that it's been in operation, the railway's transported ...
Huawei’s Mobile Handset Business Still Has Some Life Left in It… Pretty Much Only in South Africa Though
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei held on to a respectable 25% share of the South African market last year despite the fact that it no longer sells handsets with Google's Android operating system. Huawei was nonetheless a distant second to ...
Ethiopian Embassy in Beijing Responds to Video of Addis Ababa Airport Officials Trying to Extort Money From a Chinese Tourist
It is quite likely that at least one, and possibly two, customs officials at the Bole International airport in Addis Ababa are unemployed today, after a Chinese traveler recorded them trying to extract a fictitious "camera tax." The Chinese traveler was ...
Hichilema Promises (Again) Not to Favor Chinese Creditors in Zambian Debt Restructuring
President Hakainde Hichilema restated his longstanding commitment to deal with all of Zambia's creditors equally in a future debt restructuring deal and vowed not to give any preferential treatment to Chinese creditors. “What we don’t intend to do is to cross-subsidize ...
Seeking ‘Olympic Spirit’ in the Global South
By Lukas Fiala and Hugo Jones, China Foresight LSE IDEAS Over the past month, political leaders and Olympic committee officials from a dozen African countries have publicly expressed their support for China’s hosting of the Winter Olympics this February. On Tuesday, Nigeria’s ...
An Update on Chinese Diplomacy in the Middle East With Jonathan Fulton
It's been a frenetic start of the year in Chinese diplomacy in the Middle East. Right after he returned from a five-nation tour of Indian Ocean states, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted half a dozen foreign ministers from Persian Gulf ...
Kenya’s ICT Minister is Now The Third High-Ranking Official to Defend the Government’s Refusal to Publicize SGR Contract
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Informations, Communications Technology Joe Mucheru spent almost an hour on Spice FM's national radio and television morning broadcast on Wednesday touting the accomplishments of President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration in promoting transparency in government. Mucheru strenuously pushed back ...
Uganda Should Borrow Less, Says President
President Yoweri Museveni wants to stop borrowing and would rather finance his government through increased trade and domestic economic activity, according to comments he made this week in an interview with Reuters. "Uganda can do much better without borrowing in my ...