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Africa’s Largest Publicly Traded Company Now Squarely in the U.S.-China Crossfire
The stock price of Africa's largest and most valuable publicly traded company has been on a roller coaster ride since U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to ban Tencent-owned WeChat from U.S. app stores. Naspers, through one of its subsidiaries, is ...
The U.S. and Chinese Embassies in Liberia Go at Each Other Over Huawei
The U.S. and Chinese embassies in Liberia are engaged in a social media squabble over whether it's safe for African countries to use Chinese technology. The feud began on August 9th when the U.S. embassy published a short post on its Facebook page that summarized ...
Lin Songtian: The U.S. “Maliciously Disrupts China-Africa Relations”
Former South African ambassador and current President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Lin Songtian, was the keynote speaker at an online event this week organized by the Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined and the Ghanaian embassy. Ambassador Lin devoted the bulk ...
The Chinese “Western Media Conspiracy”
When the news broke on Sunday that Kenyan Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that he had decided to ban the import of Chinese-made PPE due to quality concerns, the reaction on Chinese social media was entirely predictable. Right off the bat ...
W. Gyude Moore: China or the West? Who Should be Africa’s “Partner of Choice?”
Over the past couple of weeks, W. Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., has been writing thoughtful essays on Twitter where he reflects on Africa's current positioning wedged between China and the proverbial "west."
Africa in the New Era of U.S.-China Relations
African leaders have said repeatedly that they want to stay clear from the escalating conflict between the United States and China. But despite their best efforts, a growing number of African countries are nonetheless being drawn in to disputes over Huawei, ...
China: The Hot Button Domestic Political Issue in African Countries
China is fast becoming a contentious political issue in a growing number of African countries, just as in the U.S., Europe, and in most countries here in Asia. Political rivals find that it's becoming increasingly effective to disparage their opponents' ties to Beijing as a ...
Fishing Emerges as the Newest Flashpoint in the U.S.-China Standoff
The presence of China's distant water fishing (DWF) fleet in so many areas around the world made it almost inevitable that this too would become a point of contention in the increasingly acrimonious stand-off between the United States and China. Earlier ...
W. Gyude Moore: Africa’s Position in the New “Cold War”
Former Liberian Minister of Public Works and now a Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, W. Gyude Moore, wrote a compelling 10-part Twitter thread on why African countries are strenuously avoiding taking sides in the rapidly escalating dispute between the ...
Kenya Says Companies, Not the Government Decides Whether to Use Huawei 5G Tech
Kenyan ICT Minister Joe Mucheru said it's up to telecom operator Safaricom, not the government, to decide whether or not to use Huawei equipment. Mucheru once again asserted his country's sovereignty in the decision over which technology provider to use for telecom equipment and said there are no ...