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China’s UN Envoy Criticizes U.S. Sanctions Against Ethiopia, Pushes Instead For Multilateral Response

Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun speaking to the Security Council about China's position on Ethiopia.

The brief respite from U.S.-Chinese sniping at the United Nations over the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia came to an abrupt end this week. The two countries had momentarily put aside their differences on ...

Chinese Media Coverage of the Crisis in Ethiopia Also Weaves in Longstanding Grievances Against the U.S.

HEADLINE TRANSLATION: As the "Tigray People's Liberation Front" approached [Addis Ababa] step by step, the Ethiopian people took to the streets to warn the United States: don't treat us like Afghanistan

Over the past week, there’s been a noticeable increase in the frequency of media coverage on both online news sites and state-run channels in China about the burgeoning conflict in Ethiopia. It does ...

China Dismisses the White House’s B3W Plan

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin. Image via the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was asked to comment on Tuesday about the news that the U.S. plans to launch its Build Back Better World global infrastructure program ...

Hannah Ryder on the Importance of China Continuing the Tradition of Announcing a Big Financial Commitment at FOCAC

File image of China's President Xi Jinping (C) speaks as South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (R) look on, during the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation - Round Table Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 4, 2018. Lintao Zhang / POOL / AFP

The highlight of every FOCAC, at least measured by the quantity of news headlines, is the size of the big financial package that’s unveiled at the end of the triennial conference. In 2012 ...

Tshisekedi Checks in on the Progress of Kinshasa’s Vast New China-built Cultural Center

Chinese ambassador to the DRC Zhu Jing conducting a site inspection with President Félix Tshiskedi of the new Chinese-built cultural center in Kinshasa. Image via the Chinese embassy in the DRC.

DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi joined Ambassador Zhu Jing on Monday for a tour of the construction site of the new cultural center that China is financing and constructing in ...

FOCAC PERSPECTIVES: African Civil Society Stakeholders Hope FOCAC Will Lead to a More Inclusive Dialogue With China That Promotes Industrialization and Sustainable Development

Every day leading up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference on November 29th and 30th, CAP will feature perspectives from journalists, academics, activists and business leaders about what they hope will emerge ...

Daily Life For Chinese Residents in Addis Ababa is Becoming Increasingly Difficult

Many stores have closed in the Ethiopian capital due to a lack of supplies and a rapid increase in costs due to the depreciating value of the local currency. EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP

With the security situation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa becoming increasingly tenuous, supply chains for daily necessities are becoming strained making it difficult for everyone, including the city’s Chinese diaspora community, to ...

U.S. Hints at January Launch For Build Back Better World Initiative That Aims to Challenge China’s Belt and Road

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh with Ghana Vice President Bawumia. Image via U.S. Embassy in Ghana.

An unnamed senior U.S. official told reporters on Monday that the Biden administration is planning to announce the launch of its Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative as soon ...

It’ll Be Months Before We Know the First B3W Projects, But the Battle Between the U.S. and China Over African Mobile Telecoms is Already Underway

U.S. officials have not let on which projects they will support as part of the new B3W plan, their latest effort to blunt China’s infrastructure dominance in the Global South and the Belt ...

If B3W is Supposed to Rally “Like-Minded Democracies” to Confront China in the Global South, Then the U.S. Has a Big Problem

U.S. President Joe Biden tours the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado, on September 14, 2021, before delivering a speech on the infrastructure deal and the Build Back Better agenda. Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Building a coalition of “like-minded democracies” to challenge China’s Belt and Road Initiative in developing countries was a founding principle of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better World ...

For the Second Day in a Row, Liberia’s Daily Observer Editorial Board Slams Government Over Secrecy in Chinese Mining Deal

The Editorial Board at one of Liberia’s largest newspapers, the Daily Observer, is keeping up the pressure on the government by demanding for the second day in a row ...

Journalists, Scholars, and Analysts Share What They’d Like to See Emerge From the Upcoming FOCAC Conference

In the run-up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Conference that will take place in Dakar, Senegal at the end of the month, CAP is soliciting a broad swathe of experts to share ...

Congolese Superstar Cédric Bakambu May Say Adios to the Chinese Super League Now That Barcelona is Calling

File image of Beijing Guoan's Cedric Bakambu during a Chinese Super League (CSL) football match against Shandong Luneng in Beijing. STR / AFP

Congolese forward and Chinese Super League Cédrioc Bakambu may be on his way back to Spain in 2022 when his contract expires with Beijing Guoan in December. There are widespread ...

Chinese, Senegalese Governments Formally Announce FOCAC Dates and Themes

Senegalese Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall Sall and Chinese ambassador Xiao Han convene a meeting of African ambassadors in Dakar to announce plans for the upcoming FOCAC summit.

After months of speculation, the Chinese and Senegalese governments last week announced the dates for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ministerial conference that will take place in Dakar on Monday, November 29th, and Tuesday, ...

Revealing Reactions to China’s Festival of Optics

In terms of geopolitical optics, this week was nothing short of a banquet. It served up at least two sets of images that seem to crystallize our historical moment and that will live on in the Wikipedia of history as shorthand for where the world was in 2025.
One is the waves of uncannily synchronized soldiers and a bewildering array of high-tech weaponry gliding down Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue. The ...

Representatives From 50 African Countries Take Part in Inaugural China-Africa Beidou Forum

Officials from the China Satellite Navigation Committee in Beijing who took part in the first-ever China-Africa Beidou System Cooperation Forum on Friday. Image via China Daily.

More than 600 representatives from almost every African country, including eight ministers and eight ambassadors, attended the first-ever China-Africa Beidou System Cooperation Forum that took place on Friday in ...

Scholars, Diplomats in South Africa Discuss the Future of Africa-China Ties

Chinese ambassador to South Africa, Chen Xiaodong, delivers the opening remarks at an online discussion among Chinese and African scholars and diplomats about the future of ties between the two regions.

The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) together with the Chinese embassy in Pretoria hosted an online forum last week that featured discussions among Chinese diplomats, including Ambassador Chen Xiaodong, and scholars ...

Lina Benabdallah Reflects on How This Year’s FOCAC Will Differ From Past Gatherings

Acclaimed China-Africa scholar, Lina Benabdalla, an assistant professor at Wake Forest University in the U.S., reflected on Twitter about how the upcoming FOCAC ministerial conference will be different than previous leadership summits. The ...

In a Rare Move, China Joins U.S. in UN Statement Calling For Ceasefire in Ethiopia

File image of the United Nations Security Council. John Minchillo / POOL / AFP

The 15-member United Nations Security Council achieved rare consensus on Friday when it issued a statement that called on the warring parties in Ethiopia to halt fighting and engage ...

Chinese Embassy in Nairobi Dismisses “Fact-Neglecting” U.S. Allegation The PLA Considered Kenya to Set Up a New Base

The United States Defense Department renewed a longstanding allegation, that as of today remains unsubstantiated, that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “likely considered a number of countries” to set ...

Liberian Senate Approves Controversial Resources-For-Infrastructure Deal With Chinese Mining Company

File image of the Liberian Senate. Image via The Liberian Senate Facebook.

The Liberian Senate voted on Friday to approve a controversial $2.5 billion iron ore for infrastructure deal with the Chinese mining giant BAO Chico. The origins of the deal ...

A Small Chinese Aid Donation in The Gambia Reveals One of China’s Bigger Priorities in Africa

Ambassador Ma Jianchun (right) to The Gambia and Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara (left) at the Foreign Ministry in Banjul. Image via Xinhua.

At a glance, Saturday’s announcement that China would provide a $23 million grant to The Gambia for unspecified “economic and technical cooperation” (that’s often diplomatic speak for unrestricted aid) ...

China To Upgrade Equipment at Somalia’s Government-run Media Outlets

China’s newly arrived ambassador to Somalia, Fei Shengchao, visited the broadcasting facilities of Radio Mogadishu and the Somali National Television last week and promised to help the government-run broadcasters ...

A Group of South African Tourist Guides Graduated From a Chinese Language and Culture Program… But There’s One Small Problem Though

South African tour guides who graduated from a six week Chinese language and culture course. Image via South Africa Tourism.

16 tour guides in South Africa graduated on Friday from a six-week program that taught them Chinese language and culture in the hope they’ll be able to better support ...

Week in Review: Hostages Rescued in Mali, Rwandan Agribusiness & Nigeria Joins AIIB

Three Chinese hostages who escaped from their captors in Mali and were soon rescued by security forces. Image via Xinhua.

Malian security forces on Monday rescued three Chinese nationals kidnapped by unknown assailants after the trio escaped their captors over the weekend. The three construction workers and two colleagues from Mauritania were seized on ...

Young Djiboutian China Expert Uses Twitter to Try and Get the Finance Minister’s Attention For a Job

When Djibouti Finance Minister Ilyas Dawaleh tweeted this week about a meeting with Chinese ambassador Hu Bin to discuss the upcoming FOCAC summit, Charmarke Abdoulkader Hadji thought this might be a good ...

Ghanaian Mall Owner Explains Why They Put Giant Boulders in Front of a Neighboring China Mall

Boulders dumped by a rival mall owner in front of a China Mall in southern Ghana. Image via My Joy Online.

The owners of the West Hills shopping mall in southern Ghana who dumped huge boulders in front of the China Mall next door explained that they did so to stop the neighboring shopping ...

Senegal’s Official News Agency Confirms FOCAC Dates

Senegal’s Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall Sall will meet with all Dakar-based African ambassadors on Thursday to discuss preparations for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) ministerial conference that, according to the official

One of China’s Most Powerful Political Leaders, Wang Yang, Meets Separately With Legislators From Brazzaville and Kinshasa

Chinese Politburo member Wang Yang meeting with Edouard Mokolo Wa Mpombo, first vice-president of the Senate of the DR Congo. Image via Xinhua.

Wang Yang, a member of China’s powerful Politburo and president of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, held separate meetings with legislative leaders from both sides of the Congo river. In Beijing,

Letter From Nairobi: Chinese Contractors Have Turned the Kenyan Capital Into a Giant Construction Site

The China Road and Bridge Corporation expanding Nairobi's Eastern Bypass as part of the capital's road master plan. Image by Cliff Mboya.

Large swathes of the Kenyan capital Nairobi currently feel like one big construction site on account of the ongoing construction of the 27 kilometer Nairobi Expressway that’s being built by two of China’s ...

One of China’s Leading Africa Scholars Explains the Difference Between the Chinese and Western “Offer” to Africa

NOTE: This is an update to an earlier story that we showcased this week about a primetime talk show on the national Chinese TV network Dragon TV that featured ...

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