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US Senator and the chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch, lashed out at Kenya’s President William Ruto for comments made during his trip to China in April. In a speech at Peking University, Ruto said much of the ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: Trump Could Visit China in April, Sources Say

China’s Ministry of Commerce reportedly met on Tuesday with executives from Walmart, following reports that the U.S. retail giant was trying to force Chinese suppliers to lower prices to absorb U.S. government tariffs and shield American consumers from price increases. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in ...

How Zambia’s Debt Mix is Forecast to Evolve

This projection of how Zambia’s public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) debt servicing will shift over the next few years showed up in a recent public lecture by the Johns Hopkins University debt expert Deborah Brautigam at Peking University. PPG refers to ...

How Do Western and Chinese Development Models Differ? Noted Chinese Economist Weighs In

While China's financing of Global South infrastructure faces ongoing criticism from the World Bank (see above,) these traditional development institutions are partly to blame for many Global South countries' inability to boost development.  This is the viewpoint of Justin Yifu Lin, ...

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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, ...

One of China’s Most Famous Experts on African History Draws the Link Between Agency and Development

Africa won’t achieve development if it doesn’t also grasp full autonomy in the international system. This is the view of Li Anshan, one of China’s most prominent academic experts on African history. This subordination to outside powers echoes that of China ...

Li Anshan’s “Five Basic Facts About China-Africa Relations”

Professor Li Anshan is widely regarded as the preeminent Chinese scholar on African affairs. Li, who's now a professor emeritus at Peking University and President of the Chinese Association of African History, has shaped the Chinese intellectual discourse on Africa probably more than anyone else in academia. ...

Up and Coming Leader in Namibia’s Ruling Party is Now Studying Political Science at Peking University

Armas Amukwiyu, a rising star in Namibia's ruling SWAPO party took some time off from his day job doing political organizing in the northern Oshikoto region to go to Beijing to study politics at China's most prestigious university. Amukwiyu is in Beijing now ...

Understanding China’s Outlook on Global Aid & Development

The Chinese approach to global aid and development is very different than that of traditional donors in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. While Beijing is leveraging much of the existing global development infrastructure, including organizations like the IMF, the WHO, and ...

Will China Ever Look to Africa as a Manufacturing Destination?

"Made in China" once represented the lowest-cost manufacturing in the world. Not anymore. Labor costs have been steadily rising, environmental regulations are much stricter now, and, as of last year, Chinese products exported to the U.S. come with expensive tariffs.