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Google to Partner with Transsion, China’s Phone Giant in Africa
Google announced that it struck a global strategic partnership with Transsion, a Chinese maker of mobile phones beloved across the Global South. Together, the two will target emerging markets like Africa via cooperation on the Android operating system, online advertising, and Google Cloud services. ...
The Messy Politics of Building a Railway in Kenya With Chinese Money
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the showcase in Africa for China's debt-led infrastructure development drive. While critics accuse China of saddling Nairobi with unsustainable levels of debt to build the rail line that goes from the port of Mombasa to ...
China Hints It May Not Back U.S. Nominee to Lead World Bank
Ajay Banga's candidacy to become the next president of the World Bank encountered turbulence when the Chinese government hinted that it would oppose his nomination. Banga spent the day in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, meeting with Finance Minister Liu Kun, ...
Amid Polycrisis, the IMF and the World Bank Should Do More to Stabilize the World Economy
By Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang The global economy is facing polycrisis: increasing climate change, Russia’s war in Ukraine and capital flight from emerging markets and developing countries, leading to declines in their foreign exchange reserves, local currency depreciation and ...
Locating the Global South in China’s Party Congress
By Lukas Fiala and Hugo Jones We’re fairly accustomed to observing how the issue of China feeds into elections across global south countries. China is a political football, often framed as a problem that needs to be dealt with and low-hanging ...
China Grabs on to Deborah Brautigam’s Frustration With the BBC
...on Twitter that the BBC had edited her comments on allegations of ‘Chinese debt-trap diplomacy’ in such a way that distorted her remarks. While the BBC later apologized to Brautigam, blaming an...
Concealed Chinese Propaganda in Nigeria Aims to Change Negative Media Narrative on Shanghai Lockdowns
Shanghai’s controversial methods in trying to contain the spread of Omicron have sparked widespread negative media coverage in China and around the world. Now it appears that Chinese propaganda authorities...
An Update on the Current State of China-Zimbabwe Economic Relations
China's ties with Zimbabwe are either going off the rails or are among the strongest most dynamic in Africa depending on who you listen to. Mounting civil society anger towards Chinese companies and their apparent disregard for local labor and environmental ...
StarTimes Moves Quickly to Adapt to COVID-19 Crisis in Africa
Fake news and all sorts of misleading information about the COVID-19 pandemic are now rampant on African social media. Reports that Bill Gates wants to test a new vaccine on African people or that the surgical masks donated by Chinese billionaire ...
Q&A: China’s New Global Initiatives? What Are Its Goals and How Does It Affect the Middle East and Israel?
In the past two years, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced three global initiatives: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative. To understand the nature of the initiatives and their consequences for the Middle East we spoke with researcher Tuvia Gering, a ...