The China in Africa Podcast

In the run-up to last Friday’s U.S.-Japan summit at the White House, there had been a lot of talk that President Joe Biden and Prime...

The latest six-nation tour of the Middle East and Turkey by Chinese Foreign Minister Wáng Yì 王毅 revealed that Beijing now aims to play a...

The Chinese “are kicking our tails everywhere,” warned Tibor Nagy in a recent column published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper in Texas. The former top...

COVID-19 vaccines are finally starting to make their way to the world’s poorest countries as production of Chinese, Russian, and Indian jabs ramps up. But...

The January visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wáng Yì 王毅 to Tanzania highlighted the East African country’s growing importance to Beijing. It’s a strategically located...

In January, China published a blueprint for how it plans to become one of the world’s leading countries in international aid and development. The white...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s stopover in Kinshasa on his latest Africa tour highlights the growing importance of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Chinese...

China is steadily reducing its dependence on African oil suppliers, who once accounted for a third of Chinese crude imports. Today, China buys more oil...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, the debt crisis unresolved, and preparations underway for the triennial China-Africa leaders’ summit, 2021 is shaping up to be...

Over the past 20 years, China has played a pivotal and arguably indispensable role in Africa’s economic development. The country is by far Africa’s largest...

The technology stack, either in a company or a country, is composed of the different technology layers that together form a digital communications ecosystem. In...

After a tumultuous three and a half years, a wide array of African stakeholders are hoping for a “reset” in Washington’s ties with the continent...

African residents living in China today are either students or traders, according to widely held perceptions. With more than 80,000 African students studying in China...

Since its inception in 2013, Chinese government officials have insisted that the Belt and Road (BRI) is solely an economic initiative and does not have...

Africa’s economic landscape today looks bleak. Debt levels, unemployment rates, and bankruptcies are all on the rise across much of the continent. And it doesn’t...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a central theme of China’s foreign policy, particularly in developing regions like Africa, where it’s linked to billions...

Back in 2007, China led an ambitious program to eradicate malaria in the Comoros Islands, a small island nation off the coast of Mozambique in...

There have been major developments over the past week in the African debt crisis. It appears that Angola and China reached a consensus on how...

China is importing a lot more African agricultural products these days. Zambian blueberries were recently approved to enter the China market, Namibian beef shipments started...

Since 2008, China has been gradually shifting its oil procurement strategy away from Africa and toward producers in the Middle East and Persian Gulf. Today...

Just by looking at social media and news coverage in countries like Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, it would be safe to assume that China-Africa...

It’s been almost five months since a spate of anti-African discrimination erupted in Guangzhou, home to the largest overseas African population in Asia. Back in...

This year has been tough for China’s soft-power engagement in Africa. A furious backlash to anti-African discrimination in Guangzhou in April, growing public hostility to...

African leaders have said repeatedly that they want to stay clear of the escalating conflict between the United States and China. But despite their best...

Tom Bayes, a researcher at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, joins Eric and Cobus to discuss his new paper, which explores the implications of...