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Sudan and China’s Evolving Non-Interference Policy in the Global South
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Chinese State Media: Blame the U.S. For the Coup in Sudan
Although the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been largely silent this week about the military coup in Sudan, the country's largest television broadcaster, CCTV (央视新闻), appears to be framing the story in a way that lays the blame for the collapse of the civilian government squarely at the ...
Two Chinese Experts Call for Beijing to Do More to Provide Non-Vaccine Assistance to Combat COVID in Africa
Simply shipping more jabs to Africa will not be enough to fulfill Chinese President Xi Jinping's commitment to make COVID vaccines a "global public good," argued two experts in a column published this week on the site "China and International Development."