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FOCAC PERSPECTIVES: Because of Everything That’s Going on in the World Today, Africa Will Actually Have More Leverage at FOCAC

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 ...
by Cliff Mboya

Lots Going on This Week in the China-Kenya Business Development Space

A new Kenya-China Chamber of Commerce (KCCC) launched this week in Nairobi to help foster closer ties between the local Chinese business community and Kenyan stakeholders. The new group will be led by the ...
by Eric Olander

China Reaffirms Commitment to Redistribute Its Share of the IMF’s New Special Drawing Rights

China’s top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, Wu Peng, tweeted on Tuesday that Beijing remains committed to redistributing its share of the International Monetary Fund’s ...
by Eric Olander

Blinken Arrives in Kenya, Kicks Off Week-Long Africa Tour

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo as he arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 17, 2021. Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday to begin a three-nation, five-day Africa tour that will also take him to Nigeria and Senegal. While the ...
by Eric Olander

Howard French on the Stark Differences Between U.S. and Chinese Diplomacy in Africa

Author and journalist Howard W. French.
Author and journalist Howard French is promoting his new book Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. In a conversation ...
by Eric Olander

Beijing Feels Egypt’s Administrative Capital Will Prove China’s Winning the Global South Infrastructure Game

The Chinese state-owned contractor CSCEC Egypt building building the new administrative capital outside of Cairo. Image via CSCEC Egypt.
Chinese media appears to be increasingly concerned about the emergence of new competitors to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), particularly the U.S.-led Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative, which is now gaining ...
by Eric Olander

This Year’s FOCAC Should Focus on Development Projects That Are Both Economically and Environmentally Sustainable

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 ...
by Cliff Mboya

FOCAC Isn’t the Only Regional China Conference Taking Place This Month

Delegates at the opening day of the 14th China-Latin America Caribbean Business Summit taking place in Chongqing. Image via Xinhua.
While a lot of attention is now focused on the final preparations ahead of this month’s China-Africa ministerial conference in Senegal, another, equally important regional meeting kicked off in the southwestern Chinese city ...
by Eric Olander

U.S. Conservatives Are Becoming Increasingly Concerned About China’s Engagement in Latin America and They’re Using the Same Rhetoric They Did About Africa

U.S. fears of China “taking over” countries and entrapping them in “debt traps” all while “corrupting political elites” should sound very familiar to African stakeholders who’ve heard for years identical concerns expressed about ...
by Eric Olander

Congolese Superstar Cédric Bakambu Announces Departure From the Chinese Super League, Widely Expected to Sign Soon With FC Barcelona

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 star Cédric Bakambu spoke publicly for the first time on Monday about his pending departure from Beijing Guoan where he spent the past four years and became the ...
by Eric Olander

Positive Perceptions of China Hold Steady in Africa, Says New Polling Data

The overwhelming majority of residents in 34 African states believe that China’s influence in their country is largely positive, according to the latest survey results from the independent, non-partisan public ...
by Eric Olander

Two Prominent Africa Scholars in China Analyze Blinken’s First Trip as Secretary of State to the Continent

HEADLINE TRANSLATION: Blinken will visit three countries in Africa. Does the Biden administration want to "catch up" with China?
Africa-watchers in China are closely following U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first trip to the continent as Secretary of State. Blinken arrived in Kenya on Monday and will also travel to Nigeria ...
by Eric Olander

“America Will Never Oust China From Africa by Blaming Africans, but by Improving Its Own Policy to Africa.”

Rama Yade, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.
Rama Yade, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council think tank dedicated her regular “Africa’s Time Has Come” video post on Twitter to the subject of Chinese engagement in Africa and ...
by Eric Olander

FOCAC PERSPECTIVES: If China Wants to Improve Its Standing With African Publics, It Should Promote Transparency and Insist on the Publication of Loan Contracts

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 ...
by Cliff Mboya

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

2026: Africa-China Relations in a World Shaped by North-South Geopolitics

When talking about Africa–China relations, one is always moving along a sliding scale. There are myriad interactions with Chinese entities that concern only individual African countries, segueing into trends affecting the whole continent and sliding further into global dynamics shaping the developing world, of which Africa is the heart.

The Africa-China relationship is its own thing, but Africa’s fate can’t easily be separated from factors affecting the wider Global South, ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan Inaugurates Tanzania’s New Chinese-Financed/Built National Defense College

China’s campaign to build critical government infrastructure in Africa (aka “Building Diplomacy”) marked another accomplishment on Sunday when Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who also happens to be the Commander in Chief of ...
by Eric Olander

Chinese Trucks, Buses, Cars, SUVs, Vans… Gas Powered, Electric Powered… You Name It, They’re Coming to Africa

Great Wall Motors electric P-Series pick up truck is now on sale in Zimbabwe. Image via GWM.
Chinese automakers have set their sights on the Africa market and are moving fast to grab market share from legacy players in the combustion engine side of the business and to snag the ...
by Eric Olander

Liberia’s House of Reps Blocks Controversial Chinese Mining Deal

File image of the Liberian legislature.
A fascinating political struggle is playing out in Liberia over a controversial 25-year iron ore deal with Chinese company BAO Chico. Last week, the Senate ratified the deal in what critics ...
by Eric Olander

Tensions are Rising Between Chinese Mining Companies and Rural Communities in Zimbabwe

A June 2021 headline from the Daily Mirror newspaper in Zimbabwe that reflects the steadily escalating tensions between Chinese mining companies and rural local communities.
This year has seen steadily rising tensions between Chinese companies and local communities in rural Zimbabwe. These communities live in areas where Chinese firms have been expanding their granite, diamond, and other mining ...
by Eric Olander

Antony Blinken Heads to Africa For First Trip as Secretary of State

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin a week-long, three-nation tour of Africa on Monday, making up for a trip that was originally scheduled in August but canceled so the Secretary could ...
by Eric Olander

U.S. Generals Continue to Insist China Plans to Build New Military Bases in Africa Even Though There’s No Evidence

Maj. Gen. William Zana, the most senior U.S. officer in Africa, told NBC News that he believes China plans to build more military outposts in Africa. Image via NBC News.
The United States military is turning up the volume on its longstanding allegation that China is actively considering building new military bases around the world, including in four African countries. 
by Eric Olander

How the U.S. Allegation Over More Chinese Bases in Africa Fits into a Broader U.S. Narrative

The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst for Africa and the Middle East, Joshua Meservey, commented on Friday about the U.S. Defense Department report that included the allegation that China ...
by Eric Olander

World Bank Chief David Malpass on Debt Transparency and the Challenges of Working With the Chinese

World Bank President David Malpass speaking Margaret Brennan on CBS News' Face the Nation program. Image via CBS.
World Bank President David Malpass pushed back against the suggestion that China engages in predatory lending to developing countries and instead described the lack of transparency in working with China as a “challenge.” ...
by Eric Olander

WEEK IN REVIEW: Washington’s Answer to the BRI Takes Shape as New Details About B3W Emerge

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh with Ghana Vice President Bawumia. Image via U.S. Embassy in Ghana.
The U.S. government is now considering as many as 50 infrastructure projects for its new B3W initiative, which is aimed at countering China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Earlier this week, administration officials hinted at ...
by Eric Olander

FOCAC PERSPECTIVES: Hoping the Journalists Do a Better Job Covering FOCAC And Avoid All Those “Tired Tropes”

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 ...
by Cliff Mboya

Congolese Workers Face “Dire Conditions” in Foreign-Owned Cobalt Mines, Says NGO

A man carries a bag of material dug from mine waste as workers search for leftover cobalt somewhere between Lubumbashi and Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. EDERICO SCOPPA / AFP
DR Congo’s cobalt mining sector is notorious for worker abuse and exploitation. Until now, most of the focus has been on the informal, or artisanal mines where there is no government or corporate ...
by Eric Olander

Chinese Mining Companies in the DRC Are Once Again Revving Up Their PR Efforts in a Bid to Improve Their Image

The photo and text from a Sicomines Tweet was copied verbatim and re-posted on the Congolese news site Actualite.cd -- most likely as part of a paid media campaign.
If there was any doubt that Chinese mining companies were paying for positive media coverage in the Congolese press, a pair of tweets on Wednesday (photo) should settle the issue. The Sino-Congolese mining ...
by Eric Olander

South African Retail Giant Woolworths Turns to China’s SAIC For New Electrified Delivery Vans

Image courtesy of Woolworths
When South African online shoppers get their groceries delivered from the retail giant Woolworths, they’ll come in one of the company’s new Chinese-made electric-powered delivery vans. Woolworths announced that it will use the ...
by Eric Olander

Mounting Expectations that China Will “Bring a Big Checkbook to FOCAC 2021”

As the 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) conference in Dakar nears, expectations in some quarters are rising that China will once again play the role of financier for African development and COVID-19 ...
by Eric Olander

FOCAC PERSPECTIVES: This Year’s FOCAC Will Serve as a “Moment of Truth” For China-Africa Relations

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 ...
by Cliff Mboya

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 ...
by Eric Olander
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