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What a Routine Hunan Delegation Says About China’s Evolving Africa Strategy

A delegation from Hunan province met with officials from the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry this week in Nairobi for what appeared to be pro forma discussions about enhancing trade and cooperation between the East African country and the central Chinese province.

WEEK IN REVIEW: India–China Flights Ramp Up After Curbs Lifted

The UK will take targeted action against Chinese and Indian firms facilitating Russian oil access to the international market, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday. London imposed sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil producers and two Chinese energy firms that buy Russian oil. These are the first such ...

Geely is the Latest Chinese Auto Major to Enter the Vietnamese Market

Geely joins a rapidly growing number of Chinese auto brands targeting Vietnam's growing middle class. The Chinese automaker officially unveiled three new models, both gas and electric-powered, at a launch event in Hanoi last week. The company is also planning to ...

Mideast Media Outlets Are Misreading a Chinese Naval Deployment to the Gulf of Aden

A trio of Chinese warships departed the Port of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province last week and are now on their way to the Gulf of Aden.  There is nothing unusual about this deployment as the three vessels are going to replace ...

China Launches Egypt’s Newest Satellite Into Orbit

Egypt's NextSat-1 satellite blasted into space from a seaborne launch pad off the coast of Yangjiang in China's southern Guangdong province on Saturday. The small, microsatellite weighs only 67kgs and was shot into orbit on the back of a Jielong-3 (Smart Dragon-3) ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

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, ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: Saudi Arabia Apparently Still Not yet a Member of the BRICS Club

Saudi Arabia is apparently still not yet a member of the BRICS club despite its membership being announced at the same time as when other new members joined the bloc. The Kingdom's commerce minister Majid al-Kasabi confirmed on Tuesday Riyadh has "not yet officially joined." (REUTERS) China's long-serving special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua stepped down due to ...

Saudi Arabia, China to Hold Joint Naval Exercises This Month

The Chinese and Saudia Arabian navies will conduct a second round of joint naval exercises later this month off the coast of Guangdong in southern China. "This joint training focuses on overseas maritime counter-terrorism operations, conducting exercises on sniper tactics, boat ...

Chinese Netizens Fret About More Manufacturing Moving to Vietnam While Experts Say There’s No Reason to Worry

A post went viral this week on the Chinese social media platform Weibo that highlighted the growing insecurity in China about the prospect of more manufacturing companies moving their operations overseas in response to the pressures from the United States for companies to diversify their supply chains. ...

Singapore PM Meets With Guangdong’s Top CPC Official on His Way to Beijing

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made a brief stopover in China's southern Guandong province on Wednesday during his six-day visit to China. Lee paid a courtesy call to the province's top official, Communist Party Secretary Huang Kunming, to discuss deeper economic ...

Wang Touts China’s Human Rights Record to Visiting Asian, African Diplomats on Their Way To Visit Xinjiang

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke glowingly of Beijing's human rights record with indirect references to the situation in Xinjiang when he met on Tuesday with a delegation of visiting UN diplomats from Asian and African countries. The group is currently in the ...

There are Chinese Racists and There are Chinese Global Citizens

Let’s admit right up front that there are racists in China and let’s not pretend there wasn’t racial discrimination against Africans in Guangzhou --- although recent events there were much more than just an outright expression of discrimination against Africans and black people: it was also a ...

Outspoken Kenyan MP Warns China: We Can Do to Your People What You Did to Ours

Kenyan MP Babu Owino issued a stark warning to the Chinese government this week during a press conference in Nairobi where he condemned the reported recent maltreatment and discrimination against Kenyans and other Africans in Guangzhou. "To the Chinese government," he said, ...
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