Exporting China's Development to the World: Anbound Consulting: Africa will...
On 15 January, the Peking consultancy Anbound released a report that argues that a Chinese “Marshall Plan” for Africa would not only solve China’s problems of an industrial transition (by offshoring...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Guest post: An Agricultural...
This is a guest post by Jiayi Zhou (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), who has done research on Chinese in the Republic of Georgia and is preparing to write a PhD dissertation on Chinese “land...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: CWE challenges Sinohydro contract...
In recent months — spurred by the attacks on Chinese gold-diggers in Uganda — Chinese media have been reflecting on the worsening perception of Chinese investment in Africa and the responses that this...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Pushback against Chinese oil in...
“China Finds Resistance to Oil Deals in Africa” by Adam Nossiter is in today’s New York Times. The article says that governments in Chad, Niger, and Gabon have all either shut down, taken back, or...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese company offshores Muslim...
The following caught my attention in a recent article in China Daily: The 49-year-old general manager of Suzhou Orient Investment, based in Wujiang, a district of Suzhou, is investing $10 million (7.5...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: New Ethiopian presient has PhD...
As PKU African Tele-Info reports this week (issue 159), the new Ethiopian president, Mulatu Teshome, an Oromo, has a PhD in international relations from Peking University, a department best known for...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese companies contract white...
Just had an interesting conversation with a white Zimbabwean shipping manager in Harare. He told me some of the white farmers who were thrown off their farms by Mugabe in 2002 have come back and are...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese scholar suggests Africa...
Today, at the workshop “Fifty Years of China-Africa Cooperation,” held in Harare with FOCAC funding and organised by the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, Zeng Aiping of the China...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Huawei taken to court in Zimbabwe
In the last year, regulatory challenges against Chinese companies in Africa have become increasingly commonplace, part of what seems to be a trend of greater African state assertiveness in dictating...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Hungary wants to become regional...
Hungarian radio reported that the government’s spokesman said it was “not a secret” that Hungary wanted to become the regional hub for Chinese railway construction. Negotiations were underway with the...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Urban China issue on Chinese...
The Shanghai urban design journal Urban China, based at Tongji University, is devoting its upcoming 63rd issue to Chinese urban design in Africa. As is often the case, architects appear to be ahead of...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese premier says China will...
Among the pledges made by Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the African Union meeting in Addis Abeba on 5 May, increasing the credit line to African countries to $30bn by adding another $10bn was probably...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Another sign of an impending wave...
I have blogged a few times in the past years about agriculture as the next frontier for Chinese investment abroad, but it has been slow to materialise. Over a month ago, the newspaper 经济观察 (Economic...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Guest post: Are China’s NGOs...
In April this year, two groups of Chinese journalists visited East Africa on a reporting trip. This post is translated from an unpublished article written by one of them, Hu Jianlong 胡剑龙, a senior...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese political scientist...
I am reading Wang Yizhou’s book Creative Involvement: The Evolution of China’s Global Rise (as is often the case, the book is in Chinese but also has an English title). The book came out last year...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese-language media worldwide...
According to a post dated 3 October on the Xinhua News Agency’s mobile platform and circulating on the Chinese Internet, 142 Chinese-language media organisations around the world issued a declaration...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Saturday’s (11 October) New York Times carried an article on The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. For anyone familiar with China, the name rings familiar: what China’s government is striving to...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: The coming crackdown in China’s...
There have been ominous developments in China’s cultural politics recently. In October, Chairman Xi gave a speech at the Peking Forum on Literature and Art, a high-profile event whose title paralleled...
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