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China is realizing significant political dividends from its steadily rising economic engagement in Africa over the past two decades, according to new findings by a trio of scholars in the United States. The researchers, Carla D. Jones, Hermann ...
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Interest in China-Africa relations among scholars and institutions in the U.S. appears to be on the rise in 2022, at least as measured by the number of webinars on the topic over the past couple of weeks: THE HOOVER INSTITUTION ...
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How the Chinese Debt Trap Narrative Spreads in Washington
A webinar convened on Friday by the Middle East Policy Council in Washington, D.C. highlights how the Chinese debt trap narrative has become an accepted truth among U.S. stakeholders, despite a lack of evidence that Beijing intentionally loads up developing countries with unsustainable levels of ...
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IMF = Good, China = Debt Trap ??
The New York-based geopolitical consulting firm Eurasia Group's media unit, GZERO, published a new infographic on Thursday that sums up the deeply ingrained yet highly simplistic media narrative in the United States about Western institutions like the IMF versus China: A) ...
Africa Check Challenges a VOA News Report on the Share of Kenya’s External Debt Owed to China
The African fact-checking service Africa Check called out the U.S. government-run news channel VOA for mischaracterizing the share of Kenya's external debt to China. In an article published on January 6th about Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to ...
Howard W. French on the Similarities (and Differences) Between the Soviet Union’s Advances in Africa and China’s Engagement Today
Author and journalist Howard W. French prompted a lively discussion on Twitter this week following the publication of his weekly World Politics Review column that drew parallels between the Soviet Union's embrace of Africa during the Cold War with China's present-day engagement. ...
U.S., European Financial Media Struggle to Report the Chinese Debt Story in the Global South
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It’s Difficult to Overstate Just How Much the “Debt Trap” Accusation Irks Chinese Officials
Wu Peng, China's top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, on Wednesday posted a tweet that featured a week-old video of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari defending his decision to borrow from China. Wu didn't include any other reference in ...