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Deals, Deals & More Deals. China’s Tech Giants Expand in Africa & the Middle East

2021 has been a busy year so far for China’s technology giants as they look to expand their international operations and appear to have their sites set on expanding in both the African and Arabian markets. JD, Didi, iQiyi, and Tencent are among those who’ve all made announcements in the past few weeks.

Tech journalist Alexandria Williams closely follows Chinese e-commerce and technology companies from Nairobi where she’s now writing a weekly Tech Digest column for The China Global South Project. Alexandria recently to move to Kenya from China where she worked wrote about tech. She joins Eric & Cobus to give an update on what’s new in the Chinese tech space in Africa.

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