The China in Africa Podcast

idData, the development research lab at William & Mary College in Virginia, published a landmark report this week that provides the most comprehensive overview to...

The Chinese and U.S. Presidents spoke on the same day this week at the United Nations General Assembly with each offering a different vision for...

After months of negative media coverage, Chinese mining companies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing back against the perception they aren’t fulfilling...

China has deftly managed its relations in the Middle East across sensitive sectarian and geopolitical landscapes but now that Beijing is moving to become more...

A growing number of people in Africa are facing acute shortages of food due in part to disruptions brought on by COVID, climate change, and...

It is very difficult, if not impossible, right now to accurately public opinion perceptions of China in a region as large and diverse as Africa...

Gauging the Effectiveness of Chinese Soft Power in Africa It is very difficult, if not impossible, right now to accurately public opinion perceptions of China...

A Conversation With Wu Peng, China’s Top Diplomat For Africa This week Eric & Cobus sit down with Wu Peng, the director-general of the department...

As African countries work to rebuild their economies from the wreckage caused by the ongoing COVID pandemic, policymakers will be looking at what they can...

U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry will be in China next week to pressure the government to renounce all future financing of coal power plants around the...

A lot of major developments this week in the China-Africa space following Zambia’s landslide election victory for opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and new debt repayment...

In many countries in Africa, Asia, and throughout the Global South there’s often a large discrepancy between perceptions of China in civil society and among...

China’s ties with Zimbabwe are either going off the rails or are among the strongest most dynamic in Africa depending on who you listen to...

Chinese diplomats around the world are comprised of a mix of reclusive bureaucrats who strenuously avoid public engagement and a new generation of assertive, sometimes...

Kenya’s National Treasury has resumed debt repayments to China after a 6-month debt deferral period expired in June. The Kenyan government had hoped to be...

South Sudan marked its tenth anniversary this month as an independent country. Regrettably, though, after a decade of civil war and divided government that has...

China’s apparent decision to bail on financing the $2.8 billion AKK pipeline in Nigeria is the latest evidence that Beijing’s strategy to engage the continent...

Tanzanian President Samia Hassan surprised a lot of people last month when she announced that talks with China had resumed over the controversial Bagamoyo port...

It’s not obvious, but when it comes to managing ties with China, countries in Central Asia and Africa have a lot more in common with...

While China’s ties with Europe, the U.S., Japan, and other wealthy northern countries steadily worsen, Beijing is leaning harder on its relations with states in...

DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi last month traveled to the country’s mining heartland in Upper Katanga to personally tell everyone that he’s had enough of...

This week’s launch of the new Lagos to Ibadan Standard Gauge Railway may be the last time for a long while that a multibillion-dollar infrastructure...

By now, COVAX, the global vaccine alliance, should have shipped almost a quarter of a billion doses to the world’s poorest countries. That hasn’t happened...

Environmental issues once featured prominently on the China-Africa agenda, where leaders on both sides focused on the wildlife trade, conservation, and a wide range of...

A pair of recent Congressional hearings revealed the heightened anxiety in Washington about China’s expanding presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Both...