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Egypt Approves Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use

Ozan KOSE / AFP

Egypt’s drug authority said on Monday it had granted approval to China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. Egypt has so far approved and received shipments of the Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines and ...

The Stuff That Goes Into Making a Battery For Electric Vehicles is Getting a Lot More Expensive

Image by Nerijus jakimavičius from Pixabay

Prices for the key commodities needed to produce electric vehicle batteries have been rallying all year on stronger demand for new energy vehicles. They spiked in recent days, following the U.S.-led summit on ...

In a Bid to Get People Back in the Air, Ethiopian Airlines Deploys Chinese Tech For Rapid Passenger COVID Testing

Ethiopian Airlines is hoping that a new Chinese-made COVID-19 rapid testing facility at its hub in Addis Ababa will resuscitate its passenger business. The airline partnered with BGI Health Ethiopia, a subsidiary of China’s ...

Just Because a Country Places an Order For Chinese Vaccines, Doesn’t Mean They’ll Be Delivered on Time

The Beijing-based consultancy Bridge Consulting provides an important reminder that announcements about vaccine deals between China and various African governments are a little bit like many of those MoU announcements that too often ...

China, Africa and the Fast-Changing Geopolitics of Vaccines

A Kenyan woman receives the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine during the launch of the vaccination campaign for 5,000 frontline workers in the tourism and hospitality sector in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 21, 2021. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

Public health authorities across Africa are scrambling to find new sources of vaccines now that the supply of jabs they had been counting on from the global Covax alliance has all but come ...

After Dropping AstraZeneca From Its Vaccine Plan, the Africa CDC Looks to Sinopharm For Jabs

The Africa Center for Disease Control is reportedly in “advanced stage of discussions” to secure supplies of the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine. “We are hopeful the discussion will lead to a favorable pronouncement on the ...

China’s Leading Respiratory Disease Expert Warns Sinovac, Sinopharm Vaccines Vulnerable to South African Variant

File image of Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshang speaking at a conference in Guangzhou. Image via Xinhua.

China’s famed respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshang (photo) issued a new warning over the weekend about the vulnerabilities of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines that use so-called inactive agents and their ability ...

With the COVID Crisis Exploding in India, More Countries Turn to China to Fill the Vaccine Void

People walk past notices announcing that the Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford's Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine is out of stock at a vaccination centre in Mumbai on April 20, 2021 amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP

The vaccine distribution dynamic is rapidly changing in response to the unfolding calamity in India, where the country’s healthcare system has collapsed due to an explosion of infections across the country. ...

FT: The Evidence From Chile Says Sinovac’s Vaccine is Working

Despite earlier concerns over its low efficacy rate, the Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine appears to be performing well in its largest test to date in Chile, according to the findings ...

Seems Like Building an Alternative to China’s BRI is the Thing to Do. Now, the EU and India Want to Give It a Try.

The European Union and India are reportedly in talks to develop a new partnership to build infrastructure around the world in an effort to provide an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. ...

The U.S. Congress Wants to Know More About What the Chinese Are Doing in Africa

In a rare display of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 21-1 on Wednesday to move a bill designed to counter China’s growing influence around the world. Next, the “

The Top Commander for U.S. Forces in Africa Tries to Make the Case For Why Americans Should Care About the Continent (Hint: It Has Something to do With China)

U.S. Army General Stephen J. Townsend. Image via Sgt. 1st Class Maurice Smith Credit: 50th Public Affairs Detachment

Army General Stephen J. Townsend (photo), the top commander for U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM), really wants Americans to pay more attention to what’s going on in Africa. “China and Russia don’t ignore Africa, ...

Growing Civil Society Anger in Ghana About the Government’s Perceived Double Standard in How It Treats Chinese “Galamsey”

Musician-turned-political activist Kwame Asare Obeng. Image via Modern Ghana.

There’s growing frustration in Ghana over the government’s apparent refusal to crack down on Chinese participation in illegal gold mining, a practice known locally as galamsey. This is an issue that’s been simmering ...

Chinese Legislators Meet With Counterparts in Burkina Faso and Egypt

Members of the Foreign Affairs Commission of China's National People's Congress held a video conference with their counterparts in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso. Image via @@WuPeng_MFAChina.

There’s been a noticeable uptick in the number of engagements between Chinese and African legislative leaders. In Burkina Faso, members of the Foreign Affairs Commission from China’s National People’s Congress ...

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 ...

China to Build a New Library at the University of Nairobi

Beijing’s top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, Wu Peng, announced on Twitter yesterday that the Chinese government will build a China-themed library at the University of Nairobi. The university is already home ...

What’s at Stake for China in Chad Following the Unexpected Death of President Idriss Deby?

Late Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno greets a crowd of journalists and supporters as he arrives to casts his ballot at a polling station in N'djamena, on April 11, 2021. MARCO LONGARI / AFP

News that Mahamat Kaka, son of late Chadian President Idriss Deby who was killed on Monday in fighting near the Libyan border, has been named interim leader will likely be well received ...

China’s Top Economic Planning Agency Issued a Report About the BRI That Policymakers in Africa and Elsewhere in the Global South Should Read Carefully

China Road and Bridge Construction of the Nairobi Expressway in Kenya. Simon MAINA / AFP

The National Development and Reform Commission (NRDC), China’s top economic planning agency, published a new report on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper, that detailed some of the ...

Egypt is All-In on Chinese Vaccines With 20 Million New Jabs on the Way And a New Production Deal Set to Start

Photo via Sinopharm.

The Egyptian government is placing a massive bet that Chinese vaccines will open a path out of the pandemic. The Health Ministry on Tuesday announced a deal to purchase an ...

How Does Sinovac’s Efficacy Rate Compare to Other COVID-19 Vaccines?

For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing the efficacy rates of Chinese vaccines compared to those from other countries and a number of readers have asked for comparative data to ...

Demand for EV Battery Materials is Surging Putting Renewed Focus on Where These Strategic Resources Come From and China’s Role in Processing Them

With new electric-powered sports cars like Ford’s Mach-E and Audi’s e-tron Quattro selling well, demand is surging for the strategic minerals and metals that are used to make the batteries in those vehicles. Sales ...

The Road to a Clean Energy Future Runs Through the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A child breaks rocks extracted from a cobalt mining at a copper mine quarry and cobalt pit in Lubumbashi on May 23, 2016. The price of copper has fallen heavily, directly impacting workers in the town. JUNIOR KANNAH / AFP

The former President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jeanine Mabunda Lioko, wrote an impassioned appeal for the world to recognize the important contribution that the DRC will make to the ...

China To Do More to Make COVID-19 Vaccines Accessible to Developing Countries, Says Xi

President Xi Jinping told attendees of the Boao Forum taking place on China’s southern Hainan Island on Tuesday that Beijing will increase the “accessibility and affordability” of vaccines for ...

China’s Tecno Knocks Off Samsung to Become Africa’s #1 Smartphone

Tecno, for the first time, edged out Samsung to become the top smartphone brand in Africa in 2020 thanks to a steady stream of new, affordable devices backed with robust marketing budgets,

Leaders From the World’s Major Powers Convene in Two Separate Summits. African Issues Addressed in One… Albeit Just Barely

Two separate international summits took place on Friday. China was a primary actor in one and a prominent theme of the other. And in both the U.S.-Japan summit in Washington and ...

Chile’s Reliance on Chinese-Made Vaccines Provides a Cautionary Example for Public Health Officials in Africa and Other Developing Regions

A health worker administers a dose of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine against COVID-19 to a man at a vaccination center in Santiago, on March 30, 2021. Martin BERNETTI / AFP

A number of events have converged to further constrict the flow of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa and other regions throughout the Global South. India, once a major vaccine exporter, halted ...

Concerns Over Chinese Vaccine Efficacy Have Had No Measurable Impact on Distribution

Leaders and public health officials in developing countries have seemingly brushed aside concerns about the efficacy of Chinese-made vaccines. Many are courting Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers to secure further supplies. According to the latest ...

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