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How Shenzhen-based Transsion Won Africa’s Mobile Phone Market
Africa is one of the world’s last emerging mobile phone markets, and one Chinese company is making heaps of money there. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based maker of affordable phones posted $743 million in profit last year, up 45.6% year-on-year. While ...
New Asia-Africa Chinese Undersea Cable Threatens Pax Americana: Report
China’s provision of undersea internet cables to Africa and the Middle East poses a security threat to the United States, according to a new report from the Middle East Institute (MEI), a prominent Washington DC-based think tank. The report, ...
Sino-European Competition for Influence in Africa
It's only been a few weeks since the Europe-Africa summit in Brussels, EU where officials unveiled a huge €150 billion development package for Africa that aimed to convey a two-part message: 1) We're ready to engage Africa and 2) we're not going to cede further ...
U.S., European Tech Competition With China in Africa
Challenging China's dominance in Africa's tech sector was one of the key takeaways from this month's Europe-Africa summit and a key component of the EU's Global Gateway infrastructure agenda. But it's not going to be easy given the enormous breadth of ...
Congo-born Chinese Siblings Raise $7.5 Million to Build Crypto-Powered Super App of Africa
The Congo-based cryptocurrency & blockchain (aka web3) start-up raised $7.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by James Zhang and his sister, also born in the Congo, who saw the opportunity for blockchain-enabled applications in the gaming and education sectors that are becoming increasingly popular ...
Column Appears in Pro-China Newspaper in South Africa to Make the Case for Huawei
The Editor in Chief of the South African edition of the U.S. tech-business magazine Fast Company, Wesley Diphoko, rallied to the defense of Chinese networking giant Huawei in a column published in the pro-Chinese news outlet Independent Online. ...
The South African Government is Making Huawei an Example
The South African Department of Labor’s decision to sue the local subsidiary of the Chinese mobile technology giant Huawei for hiring too many foreign workers could signal a wider crackdown on foreign firms. This comes as the country’s unemployment rate soars and pressure to allocate ...
Lithium Follows Cobalt’s Lead With New Record Production Output
The surging demand for electric vehicles in China, the U.S., and Europe is powering new demand for lithium, a key ingredient used to make EV batteries. Global mined lithium production hit a record high in 2021 of 100,000 tonnes (excluding the ...
Chinese Media Claims More Than a Million Passengers Have Used the New Chinese-Built Railway in Laos
According to Chinese state media, the new Chinese-built and funded railway between China and Laos, which was launched two months ago, is a huge success already. Rail authorities in China's southwestern Yunnan province report that in the short time that it's been in operation, the railway's transported ...
Huawei’s Mobile Handset Business Still Has Some Life Left in It… Pretty Much Only in South Africa Though
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei held on to a respectable 25% share of the South African market last year despite the fact that it no longer sells handsets with Google's Android operating system. Huawei was nonetheless a distant second to ...
Ghana Approves Homegrown Smart Cities Solution That Will Use Both Chinese and U.S. Tech
Ghana's National Communications Authority (photo) granted local internet services provider Celltel approval to build the $300 million Ghana Smart Cities Project that will provide national wireless internet coverage. The company said it plans to use a mix of Chinese and U.S. ...
Iranian Security Service Buys Advanced Video Surveillance Technology From China
One of China's largest video surveillance companies, Tiandy, is reportedly selling large quantities of sophisticated AI-enabled cameras with facial recognition technology to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and other Iranian security services, according to a report published earlier this month by surveillance research group IPVM.