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Zimbabwe Takes Delivery of More Than a Million Doses of Chinese-Made Vaccines

Zimbabwe took delivery on Tuesday of a huge shipment of more than a million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that it purchased from China. In making the announcement on Twitter, Chinese ambassador Guo Shaochun acknowledged some of the vaccine production and ...

A Totally Different China-Africa Conversation

China is such a polarizing issue in the U.S. and Europe at present that almost any discussion on the topic is bound to become political. That's certainly the case in the China-Africa space, where webinars hosted by U.S./European think tanks, universities, and companies often devote the bulk ...

Not a Day Goes by That Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian Doesn’t Talk About COVID-19 Aid to Africa

Regular readers of this newsletter may have noticed a new trend. In recent weeks, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian has mentioned Beijing's COVID-19 medical relief to Africa in almost every one of his regular press briefings.  The questions ...