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In the Battle for Influence in Africa, China Turns to Agriculture

...overproduction. The excess production is then “dumped” on the world market. The cheap subsidised products drive down world prices and badly affect the chances of developing countries earning from export...

Kenya’s Dependence on China Brings Good News and Bad News for the Economy

...Helps and Hurts the Kenyan Economy THE GOOD NEWS: The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) reported that the trade deficit fell by 20% in the first half of the year largely due to...

It’s Becoming Increasingly Difficult For African News Consumers to Figure Out What’s Legitimate News About China and What’s Propaganda

A column published on one of Ghana’s largest news portals, Ghanaweb, on Sunday highlights the difficulties confronting readers in determining what is legitimate editorial content and what is state-produced propaganda....

The Growing Number of Ways Chinese Propaganda Filters Into Mainstream African Media

The number of ways that Chinese propaganda filters into mainstream African news coverage appear to be growing. In this case, the website for The Standard newspaper in Kenya published an article last week that appropriately labeled the article as "Sponsored Content" but never ...

China’s Cobalt Mining Giant in the DR Congo is in Trouble (Again)

The phone many of you are using to read this article and all those electric vehicles on the roads rely on cobalt, a strategically vital metal that comes from one...

The Plunge in China’s Overseas Lending

Getting a loan from one of China's two largest policy banks is significantly more difficult than it was just a couple of years ago. According to data from Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, lending by the China Development Bank and ...

China Merchants Group Exporting Its Shekou Model of Port-industrial Development to Africa

As the final frontier for trade growth, Africa is the only region where exponential economic and cargo growth is still possible. The continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. However, many existing African ports do not have the capacity to accommodate a growing demand ...

You’ve Heard of the Brady Plan, But What About the “Shanghai Plan” to Restructure Developing World Debt?

This week's revelation from the AfDB that Africa's total public debt now stands at $546 billion, more than all of the revenue collected in 2021 by governments across the continent, is the latest indication that the debt issue is blooming into a full-blown crisis ...

Banks, Not Tanks: Regaining the Spirit of Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China

By Kevin P. Gallagher and Cecilia Han Springer 50 years ago, from February 21-28, 1972, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visited Beijing, beginning the process of normalizing diplomatic relations between the US and China. In the Shanghai Communiqué issued during that historic ...

Is China’s Lending Particularly “Aggressive”?

Amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the bleakest prognosis on climate change yet, you may have missed the ongoing saga of Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. A quick recap: Uganda loaned $325 million from China Exim Bank to upgrade the airport. ...
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