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Chinese News Outlet Fact Checks Claim That Chinese Mining Company Unduly Evicted Zimbabweans From Their Ancestral Land
The increasingly contentious dispute in Zimbabwe over the behavior of Chinese mining companies is now getting noticed back in China, where the popular online news site The Paper.cn published a detailed fact check report on some of the allegations against Chinese mining companies.
The Long Arc of Chinese Lending to Africa
The biggest headline from November’s FOCAC meeting was China’s pivot away from infrastructure funding. But like many FOCAC headlines, it needs several asterisks. In the first place, the pivot might actually be away from a particular infrastructure model (massive projects funded with large bilateral Chinese policy bank ...
If You’re Going to Criticize China For Its Lending Practices, Make Sure to At Least Get Your Facts Right
The central bank in Sri Lanka will make a $500 million payment on Tuesday to bondholders, the first tranche of $4.5 billion in debt servicing obligations that Colombo is due to pay this year. The South Asian island state ...
Hunan Province Approves a Raft of New Measures Aimed at Boosting Trade With Africa
Provincial lawmakers in the southern Chinese province of Hunan approved a set of new measures this week that are designed to boost the province's already sizable trade with Africa. Members of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth People's ...
Professor Ding Long on Why the Gulf Foreign Ministers Visit is So Important
Professor Ding Long, a well-known Mideast scholar at Shanghai International Studies University, reflected on the significance of this week's landmark visit to China by four foreign ministers from Persian Gulf countries. Writing for a domestic audience in the Chinese edition of ...
One of China’s Top Africa Scholars Tries to Explain How Wang Yi Chooses What African Countries to Visit and Also Responds to Debt Trap Accusation
For 32 years, Chinese foreign ministers like Wang Yi have made it a priority to go to Africa for their first overseas trip of the year but little is known about what goes into selecting the countries for these annual visits. ...
Chinese Scholar Identifies Three Pillars of Great Power Competition in Africa
It's a relatively recent phenomenon for China to frame its relations in Africa within the larger context of great power competition with the United States and the European Union. Prior to the Trump administration when the ties between the U.S. and China started deteriorating more rapidly, Africa ...
China’s Communist Youth League Asks “Who’s Better For Africa? China or the U.S.?” (Guess Who They Picked?)
The Central Committee of China's influential Communist Youth League (CYL) published a rather comical (unintentionally of course) comparison between U.S. and Chinese engagement in Africa that made the case as to why China, not surprisingly, is the more optimal partner for the continent.
DOUBLE EPISODE: Andy Mok Reflects on FOCAC Plus a Discussion About Bad China-Africa Journalism
With the end of the year fast approaching and time running out to get everything into the last remaining shows of the season, we're bringing you a special double episode this week. First, join us ...
Nigeria’s Debt Crossed the $90 Billion Threshold… But Not Because of Chinese Loans
Nigeria's total debt, both external and domestic, edged up by 4% to $92.6 billion as of the end of September according to the latest data from the Debt Management Office (DMO). The DMO said the increase was due largely ...
BRI Scholar Reflects on U.S.-China Competition For Influence in ASEAN and the Critical Role of Railways
The new $6 billion, 1,000-kilometer China-Laos railway that opened a couple of weeks ago is widely seen as the most visible evidence of Beijing's push to expand its presence in Southeast Asia. The railway's debut came just before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the region ...
Incompetence, Inexperience to Blame For China’s Bad Loans in Global South, More Than Any “Plot to Enslave Poor Countries,” Argues Professor
The prominent expert on Chinese finance, Michael Pettis, is the latest scholar to challenge the popular narrative that China engages in predatory lending abroad. Instead, the Peking University professor attributes the surge of Chinese loans to less developed countries on "inexperience" and "bad lending practices."