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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 ...
FOCAC 2024: Three Trends to Watch at This Year’s Africa-China Summit
As leaders from across Africa prepare to gather with their Chinese counterparts for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), all eyes will be on the evolving dynamics of this crucial relationship. The summit, a cornerstone of Sino-African diplomacy for the past two decades, offers key insights ...
Cambodia Looks to ‘Breathe’ With Controversial New Canal
By Suy Se Dust covers everything in Lim Tong Eng's yard, thrown up by excavators toiling next door to enlarge a channel that Cambodia's government hopes will soon be a major shipping canal. Next month, ...
Indonesia and China Explore Transportation Collaboration Beyond Electric Vehicles
This article is co-authored by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), and Yeta Purnama, researcher at CELIOS. In recent years, Indonesia has become more interested in deepening transportation ties ...
Sri Lanka to Save $5 Billion From Bilateral Debt Deal
Sri Lanka will save $5 billion following the restructuring of its bilateral debt, much of which is owed to China, through slashed interest rates and longer repayment schedules, the president said Tuesday. The island nation defaulted on its foreign borrowings in ...