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Nigerian Minister Blames “Selfish Lawmakers” for Jeopardizing Chinese Railway Loans

File photo of Nigerian Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP
Nigeria’s outspoken Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi accused lawmakers in the House of Representatives of being “selfish” for launching a probe into a 2018 Chinese loan agreement. Representatives erroneously thought that the waiver of ...
by Eric Olander

Africa Benefitting From China’s Determination to Move Away From Australian Commodity Suppliers

File image of an Australian iron ore mine. Australia's mining exports may become the next targets in the country's worsening trade dispute with China. AMY COOPES / AFP FILES / AFP
China appears willing to pay higher financial and environmental costs if it means ending its dependence on Australian commodities including iron ore and coal. China has been steadily diversifying its sourcing of key ...
by Eric Olander

Everyone’s Still Trying to Figure Out If The New China-Iran Agreement is a Big Deal or a Whole Lot of Nothing

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, pose for a picture after signing an agreement in the capital Tehran, on March 27, 2021. AFP
Conservative commentators and media in the United States all seem to think that China’s newly signed 25-year strategic cooperation agreement with Iran is a game-changer and marks the emergence of a new anti-democratic power ...
by Eric Olander

Who China Lends Money to in Africa and How Much They Provide Has Changed a Lot

One of the key findings in CARI’s newest report on Chinese lending patterns in Africa revealed a major shift in who Chinese creditors are lending money to and for how much. The once ...
by Eric Olander

UN Secretary-General Issues Stark Warning on Developing World Debt: Too Little’s Been Done and Now It’s Too Late

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dark warning on Monday that too little had been done to resolve the burgeoning debt crisis in developing countries what has been so far is “too limited ...
by Eric Olander

A Proposed Senate Bill Intended to Increase U.S. Exports to Africa Seems to be Far More Focused on Confronting China

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin published a press release on Monday that touted a new bipartisan bill that aims to increase U.S. exports to Africa. The “Increasing American Jobs through ...
by Eric Olander

Human Rights Watch’s Africa Advocacy Director Can’t Understand Why African Leaders Are “Shielding China Over Xinjiang”

Photo from a recent conference in Beijing where ambassadors from Burkina Faso, the Republic of Congo, and Sudan all enthusiastically endorsed China's policies in Xinjiang. Image via @WuPeng_MFAChina.
Human Rights Watch Africa Advocacy Director Carine Kaneza Nantulya is puzzled as to why African governments are not doing anything to confront China on the mass internment of Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang. 
by Eric Olander

Chinese Vaccine Shipments to Africa Pick Up As Beijing Reports 260 Million Doses Delivered Worldwide

Chinese vaccine deliveries to Africa appear to have picked up pace with shipments going to more countries over the past week, according to the latest tracking map produced by CGTN.
by Eric Olander

UAE to Become First Country Outside of China to Manufacture Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccines

China's foreign minister Wang Yi and his UAE counterpart Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan hold up doses of the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 28 2021. Image via Emirates News Agency.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi closed out his Persian Gulf tour on Sunday with a major announcement that the United Arab Emirates would become the first country outside of China to manufacture the ...
by Eric Olander

Key Highlights From Wang Yi’s Six-Nation Tour of the Persian Gulf and Turkey

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi returned home on Sunday after wrapping up a five-day, six-nation tour of the Persian Gulf and Turkey. Wang’s visit highlighted the growing importance that Beijing now assigns to ...
by Eric Olander

Human Rights, Non-Interference and Trade at the Top of Wang Yi’s Agenda in Saudi Arabia

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicked off a week-long six-nation tour of the Persian Gulf and Turkey on Wednesday with a stop in Riyadh, where he met with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal ...
by Eric Olander

China Extends Pandemic Relief to Another Multilateral Organization

Liu Yuxi, China's ambassador to the African Union, and Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa attend a handover ceremony for medical supplies donated to UNECA, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 24, 2021. Image via Xinhua.
China donated a batch of medical supplies (not vaccines though) to the United Nations Economic Commission in Africa in what now appears to be part of a larger effort to provide ...
by Eric Olander

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

China-Led Study Proposes Global Energy Network

A globally connected network of solar and wind energy could provide three times the global energy demand by 2050 at a lower cost than independent national power systems. This is the finding of a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Denmark.
The study focused on how areas with high solar and wind capacity (such as deserts) can be linked ...

Why Is China is Sending Vaccines to Certain Countries and Not Others?

Handover ceremony of Chinese vaccines at the Maya-Maya International Airport in Brazzaville.
The list of countries receiving Chinese vaccines around the world is large and growing but it’s still not clear what criteria China uses to distribute vaccines to some countries over others. Two Czech ...
by Eric Olander

In 5 Years, the Battle Over Cobalt is Going to Intensify… a LOT!

There are just five years left before the demand for cobalt, a critical metal used to make the batteries in electric vehicles, is going to outstrip the known supply of this strategically vital ...
by Eric Olander

Someone is Notably Absent From This Year’s Alibaba-Backed Africa’s Business Heroes Awards

Organizers of the annual Africa’s Business Heroes prize sent out an announcement on Wednesday that the online portal to apply for the competition will open on Monday.  In the past, just last year ...
by Eric Olander

Council on Foreign Relations Report: U.S. “Inaction” and “Withdrawal” Bolstered China’s BRI

GREG BAKER / AFP
A group of scholars at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York published a critical report today that attributes U.S. “inaction” and “withdrawal” for creating a vacuum in the international ...
by Eric Olander

Momentum is Building For the IMF to Issue $650 Billion in New Capital Intended to Help Developing Countries

File image of the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C. SAUL LOEB / AFP
The International Monetary Fund may issue new Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that would provide $650 billion to its members, the bulk of which is intended to go to the world’s poorest countries to ...
by Eric Olander

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa Scheduled to Receive First Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine Tomorrow

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will head to the resort city of Victoria Falls tomorrow to receive his first injection of a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac and kick off the second phase of ...
by Eric Olander

Egypt Poised to Become First African Country to Manufacture Chinese Vaccines

Ozan KOSE / AFP
Talks between China and Egypt to launch a new manufacturing facility have reportedly reached “an advanced stage.” The planned facility will produce COVID-19 vaccines made by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, according to Egyptian Health ...
by Eric Olander

Qatar and Saudi Arabia Both Place Long Term Bets on China

Qatari Energy Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, who is also the President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum, and Mr. Zhang Yuzhuo, the Chairman of Sinopec Group, participate in a virtual ceremony attended by senior officials from both sides.
With oil and gas demand in the U.S. and Europe expected to fall dramatically in the years ahead as both regions embrace a post-carbon economy, two of the world’s largest energy exporters, Qatar ...
by Eric Olander

Favorable Views of China, France Both Fall in 12-Nation African Survey

Opinion leaders in 12 French and Arabic speaking African countries look less favorably upon France and China, according to the findings of the third annual survey conducted by the French Council of Investors ...
by Eric Olander

One French Scholar’s Widely Published Article This Week Encapsulates Every Anxiety About China’s Influence in Africa

NICOLAS ASFOURI / POOL / AFP
The popular perception of China’s steadily growing presence in Africa has long been viewed with skepticism among France’s political, media, and academic elites who have historically regarded the continent, particularly francophone countries, as ...
by Eric Olander

China Cranks Up the Campaign to Lobby African Stakeholders on Xinjiang

Photo from a recent conference in Beijing where ambassadors from Burkina Faso, the Republic of Congo, and Sudan all enthusiastically endorsed China's policies in Xinjiang. Image via @WuPeng_MFAChina.
With Xinjiang now emerging as a core dividing issue in the increasingly acrimonious U.S.-China relationship, it appears that Beijing is leaning even more on its ties in Africa and other ...
by Eric Olander

John Magufuli Took a Lot of Inspiration From the Chinese Communist Party in Shaping Tanzania’s Ruling Party

The late Tanzanian President John Magufuli. ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP
Late in John Magufuli’s life, some observers mistakenly came to see the former Tanzanian President as a budding China hawk for his high-profile rejection of a $10 billion deal with China Merchants Holdings ...
by Eric Olander

China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Donations Align Suspiciously Close to Beijing’s Geopolitical Priorities in the Global South

The latest tracking data of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine sales and donations around the world by the Beijing-based consulting firm Bridge reveal an interesting distribution around the world that appear to align closely with ...
by Eric Olander

Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Vaccines Landed in Egypt, Benin, and Niger Over the Weekend

Niger's President Issouf and Prime Minister Brigi Rafini pose together with Chinese ambassador Zhang Lijun at Niger Capital International Airport to mark the arrival of vaccines from China.
Large shipments of vaccines imported from China landed in North Africa over the weekend, providing some countries with their first jabs needed to kick off national inoculation programs in the region: ...
by Eric Olander

Namibia’s State TV Channel NBC to Broadcast 4-Part Series Produced by CCTV

TV viewers in Namibia will be able to watch a four-part documentary series produced by China’s state-run broadcaster CCTV beginning on Monday at 17:20 local time.  The show, Glamorous Namibia, will be aired on ...
by Eric Olander

One Week Later, Burundi Shows the Statement That It Published in Support of China’s Controversial New Election Law in Hong Kong

Burundi’s official press agency published a flurry of tweets today in both English and French that provide new details on a statement that the government released one week ago in support ...
by Eric Olander
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