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Chinese-Moroccan Joint Venture Inaugurates EV Battery Parts Plant

A Chinese-Moroccan joint venture announced on Wednesday the inauguration of a new factory for electric car battery components, the first of its kind in the North African country. The complex will ultimately have a production "capacity equivalent to 70 GWh per ...

Africa EV Digest: Tesla Opens Africa Office, Upping Competition For Chinese Brands

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EV Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Topline Insight Tesla’s Africa expansion through its new Morocco office ...

Africa EV Digest: Morocco Secures $282 Million Chinese Battery Plant as Africa Pushes Deeper Into EV Supply Chain

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EV Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Topline Insight Chinese battery materials giant Tinci Materials ...

China’s Strategic Pursuit of Nuclear Energy Dominance in Africa

By Innocent Batsani-Ncube China is strategically positioning itself to exert significant influence over Africa’s nuclear energy sector in the coming decades. Presently, Russia and France dominate this emerging industry, with the United States playing a lesser role; however, China’s calculated initiatives ...

Western, Chinese 5G Rivals Poised to Clash Over New Deployment in Morocco

Telecom service providers from Europe and the United States will soon face off against rivals for China over a new tender to build out Morocco's 5G network, according to a report in Africa Intelligence. The National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency will ...

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China-Led Study Proposes Global Energy Network

A globally connected network of solar and wind energy could provide three times the global energy demand by 2050 at a lower cost than independent national power systems. This is the finding of a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Denmark.
The study focused on how areas with high solar and wind capacity (such as deserts) can be linked ...

Moroccan Media on Xi Jinping’s Visit and Increasing Cooperation with China

By Mariateresa Natuzzi On November 21, 2024, Xi Jinping, returning from his state visit to Brazil for the G20 Summit, made an unexpected landing in Casablanca. Officially described in the Chinese readout as a “technical stopover,” the Chinese President was welcomed at ...

Morocco is Now a Major Hub for Chinese Investment in Africa

Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised a lot of people last month when he made an unannounced stopover in Morocco on his way home from the G20 summit in Brazil. The North African country doesn't often come to mind when considering China's ...

New Geopolitical Landscape Explains Why Xi Made Unannounced Stopover in Morocco

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived back in Beijing on Saturday after a week-long trip to South America to attend a pair of summits in Brazil and Peru. On his way home, Xi made an unscheduled stopover in Morocco on Thursday, where he was greeted at the airport ...

Morocco Signs Agreement for EV Battery Plant With Chinese Company

The Moroccan government signed a $300 million agreement with China’s BTR New Material Group to build a plant in the port city of Tangier to produce cathodes used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The government considers this plant the first step ...

Morocco Looks at Its Relations with China: Between the Earthquake and the Diplomatic Celebrations

By Mariateresa Natuzzi and Léa Gebuhrer In this issue of the ChinaMed Observer, we take stock of Sino-Moroccan relations as the two countries prepare to commemorate the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic ties this November 1st. We examine recent trends in Moroccan press ...

Breaking the Taboo: How Multilateral Development Banks Can Participate in Debt Relief

By Marina Zucker-Marques and Kevin P.Gallagher For three long years now, the Group of 20 (G20) Common Framework has been unable to put debt-distressed countries on a path toward debt sustainability and development. The Common ...

Chinese Battery Major Gotion Poised to Build Africa’s First Gigafactory in Morocco

The Sino-German electric vehicle battery major Gotion High-Tech is planning to build a massive new factory in Morocco that would produce electric car batteries and energy storage systems. The company signed an MOU with the Moroccan government last week in Rabat for a ...
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