Tag: United States
Related Posts
Tweet of the Day: The Chinese in Africa Prove the Old Saying That “90% of Success is Just Showing Up”
Nigeria-based Onye Nkuzi is a popular commentator on Twitter where he has more than 115,000 followers. He regularly shares his insights on African political issues and China-Africa relations. You can follow Onye ...
Tweet of the Day: Without China and Russia in Africa, the U.S. Would Likely Lose Interest
Onye Nkuzi is a Nigeria-based analyst who has more than 114,000 followers on Twitter and regularly comments on U.S.-China-Africa issues. You can follow him on Twitter ...
With No Evidence, Some US & EU Media Frame Russia Summit as Move to Challenge Chinese Influence in Africa
Agence France Presse and Newsweek were among the Western news outlets who have framed the Russia-Africa Summit story as a bid to somehow "confront" or "challenge" China's massive influence in Africa. What's interesting, though, is that none of that rhetoric is coming from the Russians themselves. Quite ...
For the First Time in a Long Time, China Isn’t Looming in the Background of an Africa Summit… This Time It’s the U.S.
Over the past few years at various African summits organized by the Japanese, Europeans or Americans, China has emerged as a kind of benchmark that other foreign powers are now measured against in Africa. Beijing's dominance in African trade, infrastructure development, and technology adoption are all seen ...
With Africa-Russia Summit Kicking Off This Week, Judd Devermont Has Some Advice for How the U.S. Should Respond
The inaugural Russia-Africa Summit will take place on Wednesday and Thursday of this week in the Olympic city of Sochi near the Black Sea. Some 50 heads of state have been invited to what many regard as Russia's formal re-entry into African geopolitics. ...
Aubrey Hruby: Africa Already is a Battleground in the U.S.-China Trade War
Atlantic Council Africa Center senior fellow Aubrey Hruby explained in a recent interview at the Concordia Summit in New York that Africa is a new front in the ongoing U.S.-China trade war but nonetheless remains optimistic that some African countries are well-positioned to benefit from the ongoing ...
Ready, Aim, Fire! China’s Outspoken Ambassador in South Africa Shoots Back Against Critics in US & EU
China’s ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, helmed a characteristically shoot-from-the-hip session at a recent conference on China’s impact on African industrialization at the University of Johannesburg. Lin accused Western countries of misrepresenting Chinese financing to the continent as a trap, continuing: “Sometimes
Huawei’s Share of the African Smartphone Market Declines Due to U.S. Pressure
While Huawei dominates Africa's telecom networking market, its share of the booming smartphone market has always lagged behind other Chinese competitors, namely Shenzhen-based Transsion who controls more than 50% of the African market. Now, according to a report in today's ...
“The Belt and Road Is a Chinese Plan to Build a New World Order”
China's hugely ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often described as being more of an idea than an actual policy. Depending on whom you speak with, BRI is characterized as an economic plan to outsource China's excess domestic industrial output. Other people, notably ...
The Belt & Road Initiative: Bold Economic Agenda or Chinese Political Ploy?
In the U.S. and many parts of Europe, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often seen as "Trojan Horse" where Beijing uses the lure of trade and investment to discretely extend its political influence around the world. https://youtu.be/WJdtdNcnEoU Not surprisingly, in China, those ...
Africa and the Prospect of a New U.S.-China Cold War
The last time the United States fought a Cold War it led to devastating, long term consequences for Africa. Now, as the U.S. moves to challenge China's growing influence around the world, Africa risks becoming collateral damage in yet another great power rivalry.
The Role of Human Rights in the China-Africa Discourse
This week Dr. Stacey Links joins Eric & Cobus from Amsterdam to discuss her research in the role that human rights plays within the broader China-Africa relationship. Stacey, a South African native, recently completed her Ph.D. on the subject at the University of Utrecht ...