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Scholar: There’s a Huge Difference Between Anti-Black Racism in the U.S. and China
Hong Kong-based scholar Roberto Castillo is one of the world's foremost experts on the African diaspora in China and Chinese-Black race relations. Lately, he's become increasingly frustrated by the false equivalency that many are drawing between discrimination against black/brown people in the U.S. and China. ...
So. Many. Ironies.
Wow. The ironies are popping up so fast they're going fractal. As protests mount in the United States against the systemic and structural racism that has turned institutions like the police into something akin to occupying forces in certain neighborhoods, guess ...
Chinese Officials Are Apparently Embracing #BlackLivesMatter
After the past two months of anti-Chinese rage on African social media that came in response to the highly visible poor treatment of Africans in Guangzhou back in April, there's a certain irony to the Chinese government's embrace of the popular U.S. call to action "Black Lives ...
Just a Month Ago China Was Blamed for Anti-Black Discrimination, Now Beijing Rallies Behind Africa to Protest Against Racism in the U.S.
The Chinese government is steadily escalating its criticism of the United States over the ongoing protests against police brutality that are now taking place in dozens of cities across the U.S. While Chinese diplomats and embassies in Africa
One Month Later, Vast Segments of African Civil Society Remain Angry Over What Happened in Guangzhou
The first images of African residents in Guangzhou being forced out onto the streets of the southern Chinese city started to emerge during the weekend of April 10th. Now, a full month later, the frustration and anger those accounts sparked keep seething on African social ...
BBC Correspondent Danny Vincent Reflects on Anti-Black Discrimination in China
The longtime China-based BBC correspondent Danny Vincent reflected this week on the reports of discrimination and racism towards Africans in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. As a black journalist who has spent more than a decade reporting in Hong Kong, Vincent said he has experienced discrimination ...
China’s Subtly Revising the Narrative of the Origin of Its “Miscommunication” With Nigerians and Other Africans in Guangzhou
Confronted with overwhelming criticism in Africa following widespread reports of maltreatment of and discrimination against African residents in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou last month, the Chinese government has been trying (largely unsuccessfully) to reshape the narrative according to their interpretation of the events.
China’s Ambassador to Nigeria Defends Treatment of Africans in Guangzhou
China's ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjiang, defended his government's treatment of Africans in Guangzhou in an interview published Wednesday with the Nigerian newspaper Punch. Ambassador Zhou stuck closely to the existing talking points on China's handling of the reported maltreatment of ...
CGTN Responds to Viral Video of African Woman Unable to Enter a Guangzhou Hospital With a Story on How Another African Woman Successfully Gave Birth in a GZ Hospital
CGTN Africa wants everyone to know that African women can deliver babies in Guangzhou. It's a rather odd story for an international news channel to run but this is clearly a piece of propaganda intended to offset a recent viral video that enraged huge numbers of people. ...
Why so Many Chinese & Africans See What Happened in Guangzhou in Starkly Different Ways
Perceptions over what led to the crisis in Guangzhou back in early April remain starkly divided among Chinese and African stakeholders. Chinese officials vehemently deny that Africans were specifically targeted for additional health COVID-19 health screenings (“epidemic prevention” in the Chinese ...
The Plight of Africans in Guangzhou is Now a Topic on Breakfast Radio in Cape Town
To get a sense of just how widespread the discussion of the alleged discrimination against Africans in China has become in many parts of Africa, listen to the discussion between CAP's own Cobus van Staden (whose day job is Senior China-Africa Researcher at ...
Across Africa and Black Diaspora Rage Steadily Increases Over Reports of Discrimination and Maltreatment in Guangzhou
It's been several weeks since the first reports of widespread mistreatment of and discrimination against African residents in Guangzhou first emerged, and since then anger and frustration among broad swathes of African civil society and the larger global black diaspora has only intensified.