Tag: Infrastructure
Related Posts
With an Eye on China, Angola Becomes Key Partner for U.S. Ambitions for Africa
By Bronwen Roberts Joe Biden's choice of Angola as his first trip to Africa as president underscores the oil-rich country's influence as the focus of one of the biggest U.S. infrastructure projects on the continent, countering China's investments. ...
FOCAC and China’s Global Messaging
This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was partly aimed at reinvigorating a relationship many had framed as declining. Preceded by new data showing that Chinese project financing in Africa increased after a multi-year fall, China sought to use FOCAC to present an image of its engagement with ...
China Pushes Smaller, Smarter Loans to Africa to Shield From Risks
By Matthew Walsh China's years of splashing cash on big-ticket infrastructure projects in Africa may be over, analysts say, with Beijing seeking to shield itself from risky, indebted partners on the continent as it grapples with a slowing economy at home. ...
Key Pledges on Sidelines of China-Africa Summit
African leaders secured a wide range of commitments to enhance cooperation in infrastructure, agriculture, mining, trade, and energy sectors at China's largest summit in years. Bilateral meetings this week in Beijing on the sidelines of the Africa-China forum have resulted in ...
Navigating Risk and Relationships: Chinese Loans to Africa in 2023
By Diego Morro, Victoria Yvonne Bien-Aimé and Lucas Engel This week, African and Chinese leaders are gathering in Beijing for the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation amid significant anticipation from observers about the summit’s key priorities and whether ...
China Rolls out the Red Carpet for African Leaders
By Oliver Hotham China on Monday rolled out the red carpet for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. ...
Five Key Chinese Belt and Road Projects in Africa
China has vowed to beef up its vast Belt and Road global infrastructure initiative, promising "high-quality cooperation" ahead of a summit with African leaders in Beijing starting on Wednesday. Africa is already a key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region, with ...
African Leaders in Beijing Eyeing Big Loans and Investment
By Oliver Hotham African leaders will arrive in China's capital this week, seeking funds for big-ticket infrastructure projects as they face mounting great power competition over resources and influence on the continent. China has expanded ...
Energy is Going to be the Hot Topic at Upcoming China-Africa Summit
African leaders will soon travel to Beijing to participate in the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, which will begin on September 4th. Many of those heads of state will arrive in the Chinese capital with a rather long wish list ...
African Priorities at the Upcoming China Summit
African leaders and their delegations are making final preparations to travel to Beijing soon for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit that will begin on September 4th. This year's gathering comes at a critical time in the relationship between these ...
Where’s the Beef? How Commodity Exports and Infrastructure Contracts are Driving the New China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Relationship
By Rebecca Ray In recent years, China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) may be shifting in form and deepening rather than diminishing. This is one of the key findings of the
China-Africa Summit Preview: What’s on the Agenda for FOCAC 9?
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit is now less than a month away. Chinese President Xi Jinping will host dozens of African leaders in Beijing in the first week of September for the triennial gathering that comes at a critical ...