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Inside the Surge of Chinese Families to Thailand’s International Schools

Driven by the affordability of living expenses and education fees, Chinese expatriates have ranked Thailand among the top destinations for relocation, especially after COVID-19. As a result, the international school sector has experienced growth despite Thailand's low domestic birth rate. CGSP ...

What’s on WeChat: Stop Misleading People About What It’s Like For Chinese Entrepreneurs in Africa

A post by longtime Africa WeChat commentator Xiao Nie (小聂说事儿) is sparking a lot of discussion in Chinese development circles about the current conditions facing Chinese expatriates in Africa. Xiao Nie is well-known for his blunt "tell it like it is" writing style, which he's picked up ...

Panama Dismantles ‘VIP’ Chinese Migrant Route in Darien Jungle

By Juan José Rodríguez Panamanian border police arrested 15 people Wednesday connected to a criminal organization that helped smuggle Chinese migrants across the Darien jungle via a "VIP route" with fewer challenges to traverse. The ...

Letting Some Get Wealthy First

By Felix Brender 王哲謙 This week, the Communist Party set a rather ambitious GDP growth target of 5%, doubling down on China’s growth narrative and development success story without qualifications. At the same time, CNN and Al Jazeera are reporting on PRC citizens ...

Africa at the Intersection of Three Megatrends: China, Climate and Debt

Dramatic scenes this week in Italy where 7,000 people, mostly from Africa, came ashore after making the dangerous trek across the Mediterranean. It was a similar situation along the U.S.-Mexico border where 9,000 people crossed in a single day.

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, ...

Lessons For South Africa From China’s Tech Hub in Shenzhen

As South African policymakers plot their country's economic revival from the past several years of worsening economic crisis, boosting the country's tech industry is going to play a pivotal role in their plans. Grace Yuehan Wang, a researcher at the South ...

Hong Kong YouTuber Goes All the Way to South Africa to Find Out Why the $#*&^? Chinese People Moved There

Popular Hong Kong travel YouTuber Torres Pit托哥 recently went to Johannesburg to find out why so many Chinese people have chosen to live in South Africa.  What's interesting is how readily and openly Chinese merchants in Joburg's comparatively small Chinatown opened up ...

One French Scholar’s Widely Published Article This Week Encapsulates Every Anxiety About China’s Influence in Africa

The popular perception of China's steadily growing presence in Africa has long been viewed with skepticism among France's political, media, and academic elites who have historically regarded the continent, particularly francophone countries, as a traditional sphere of influence. Most analysis and ...

Change in Guangzhou’s African Diaspora Community

April 11th will mark the one-year anniversary of what's become known as "the Guangzhou Incident" when dozens, possibly hundreds of African residents in the southern Chinese city were evicted from their homes and hotels. Chinese officials denied that Black and African ...

One Way or Another Someone’s Going to Pay For Africa’s Debts

A new poll of young Arab nationals in North Africa and the Middle East revealed the kind of numbers that give people like Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron nightmares. 87% of the 18-24 years old surveyed expressed concerns about unemployment and ...

How Chinese Traders Both Help and Hurt Local Merchants in Ghana

It’s well documented that a lot of people in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa resent the growing Chinese migrant presence, both in terms of the people who come and the Chinese way of doing business that is often culturally out of sync with local ...

The Hopes and Despair of African Migrants in China

Unlike the United States and countries in Europe, China has never been regarded as a popular destination for economic migrants. Today, that is no longer the case. China’s four-decade long economic boom is now a magnet for immigrants, particularly from Africa.The
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