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Charter Flight Evacuates Chinese Nationals From Kenya
News quickly spread that a "mass exodus" of Chinese nationals was underway at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The Chinese were "fleeing" the country, according to the meme that was prevalent in both the news media and on social media ...
Top U.S. Diplomat for Africa: “China Gets the Chutzpah of the Year Award For Their Pretend Response on COVID”
Two top U.S. officials responsible for Africa policy testified last week before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa regarding the worsening COVID-19 pandemic on the continent and how the outbreak will impact U.S. foreign policy in the region. U.S. Assistant ...
A Congressman’s Seething Resentment of the Chinese and Their Presence in Africa
As he left the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing last Thursday, Tennessee Republican Representative Tim Burchett recorded a short two-minute video on Twitter to reflect on the session and to express his anger towards the Chinese in general and specifically Beijing's presence in Africa.
African Countries Want to Keep Their Options Open Regarding Huawei, Maintaining a Position of “Deliberate Ambiguity”
A new map of the world produced by one of Washington's leading China analysts, Scott Kennedy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, breaks down the world according to how each country views Huawei. Not surprisingly, the ...
A Slick New Documentary Goes Full “Wolf Warrior” to Showcase China’s Blue Helmets in South Sudan
A trailer dropped this weekend for "Blue Defensive Line" (蓝色防线), a new documentary about Chinese United Nations peacekeeping troops in South Sudan that will air on the CCTV6 movie channel. It's interesting that the producers featured a soundbite in the trailer ...
Djibouti’s Chinese Debt
On July 15, 2019, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, Djibouti's Minister of Economy and Finance, tweeted to announce that the restructuring of China's ExIm Bank loan for the construction of the Djiboutian section of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway line would be completed even though "a few small details" ...
Q&A: Measuring the Effectiveness of Chinese Agricultural Assistance in Africa
China has a long history of involvement in agriculture in Africa. As far back as 1959, China offered food grants to Guinea, and especially since the 2007 introduction of China’s “Agriculture Going Out” initiatives – a set of policies that encouraged Chinese agricultural companies to invest in ...
Development Finance Emerges as the Newest Front in China’s Standoff With the U.S.
Chinese President Xi Jinping didn't mention the United States by name when he addressed the opening of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's annual meeting this week, but he didn't really have to in order to get his point across.
More African Countries Are Now Members of the AIIB But It’s Still Very Much an ASIAN Development Bank
This week's announcement that Liberia will become the newest member of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) highlighted the growing prominence that Africa now has in the bank. Currently, ten African states are members, with another nine waiting for their applications to be approved. ...
Uproar in Nigeria Over Fears that Chinese Loans Are Jeopardizing Sovereignty
A full-blown media and Twitter hysteria erupted on Wednesday in Nigeria over reports that a member of the House of Representatives discovered a clause in a Chinese loan contract that supposedly puts the country's sovereignty at risk in the event of default.
Be Careful, Warned Nigeria’s Transportation Minister, House Probe Threatens Chinese Loans
Nigerian Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, called on the house of representatives committee on treaties and agreements on Wednesday to suspend their investigation into past Chinese loans until Abuja has secured $500 million for three new loans to fund critical transportation projects.
The New Sino-Australian Simandou Iron Ore Mine in Guinea Emerges as an Important Geopolitical Focal Point
Policymakers in Canberra are no doubt looking up where Guinea is on a map, after learning of potential threats to Australia's $65 billion of iron ore export business to China. Australian ties with China have worsened considerably in ...