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[DOUBLE EPISODE] 2024 China-Africa Year in Review

2024 will be remembered as a seminal year in China-Africa relations with a rebound of Chinese lending to the continent and renewed diplomatic engagement in the run-up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit that took place in Beijing.

Waiting for Trump: A Review of Chinese Perspectives on the Conflict in the Middle East

By Giorgia Facchini On November 27, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon came into effect, aiming to halt hostilities between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, who had been exchanging fire since the Hamas-led ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: China Backs Syria’s Efforts to Maintain National Security and Stability

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted his counterparts from five Central Asian countries for talks on Sunday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Boosting trade, Chinese infrastructure investment and security topped the agenda at the annual gathering. (CHINA DAILY) ...

Biden Administration Grabs Last Chance to Push Debt Trap Narrative

U.S. President Joe Biden argued on Wednesday that the United States is striving to be a qualitatively different investor from China in Africa. In making this case, administration officials couldn’t resist one last reference to a meme cherished by Democrats and ...

At APEC, China’s Xi Warns of Growing ‘Unilateralism’

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world on Friday that it was entering an era of growing "unilateralism" and "protectionism" in comments at a major Asia-Pacific trade summit in Peru. Xi was in Lima for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit ...

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2026: Africa-China Relations in a World Shaped by North-South Geopolitics

When talking about Africa–China relations, one is always moving along a sliding scale. There are myriad interactions with Chinese entities that concern only individual African countries, segueing into trends affecting the whole continent and sliding further into global dynamics shaping the developing world, of which Africa is the heart.

The Africa-China relationship is its own thing, but Africa’s fate can’t easily be separated from factors affecting the wider Global South, ...

Angola’s Big Bet on Biden Now Risks Backfiring

Pity poor Angola. President João Lourenço placed a multimillion-dollar bet on hiring expensive Washington, D.C. lobbying firms to put his southern African country on the U.S. agenda. Whatever they did worked because, over the past several years, Angola seemingly became the ...

Trump, China, and the Rest of Us

As we absorbed the news of another Trump term, my immediate conversations with friends split into two categories. With American and U.S.-adjacent friends, the conversation defaulted to (mostly despairing) unpackings of what happened. But the ...

Chinese EVs are Reshaping the International Landscape

The Biden administration on Monday announced a ban on Chinese-made software and hardware that connect electric vehicles to the outside world. It includes a range of cameras and sensors and the software driving them. It also includes a ban on Chinese-made autonomous driving software.

Biden Says China ‘Testing Us,’ in Hot Mic Remarks to Quad Allies

By Brendan Smialowski with Danny Kemp in Washington U.S. President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic Saturday telling the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan that an aggressive China is "testing us," in remarks that risked undercutting a summit ...

Economic Giants Align: Brazil’s Growing Partnership with China

2024 has been a pivotal year for Brazil-China relations. Last month marked 50 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations, and in celebration of this milestone, President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Brazil by the end of the year. ...

China-Africa Relations as Seen From the United States

As Chinese engagement in Africa steadily increased over the past twenty-five years, the U.S. has struggled to respond. Africa has consistently been a low priority in U.S. foreign policy, even with China's growing presence on the continent, and that's especially true ...

Western Tariffs a ‘Challenge’ for China’s Battery Giant CATL

By Agatha Cantrill An executive from China's battery giant CATL said on Thursday that Western tariffs tied to electric vehicles present a "challenge" for the firm and are bad for customers as well. Citing unfair ...
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