Is China eyeing a second military base in Africa as the US struggles to maintain one in Niger? - Chatham House UK
For over three decades, every Chinese foreign minister’s first overseas trip of the year has been to Africa.
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US sees wake-up call, if not threat, as BRICS bloc expands - Agence France Presse
Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa -- agreed at a summit last week to add six more members, in what Chinese President Xi Jinping billed as a historic moment among large emerging economies contesting the Western-led order. As the BRICS leaders met in Johannesburg, President Joe Biden's...
How Huawei is winning over the global south - Tech Monitor
The logic behind the expansion of telecoms networks is cold and remorseless. Turning a profit from such networks requires the provider to find users, most of which reside in cities. These networks are at their most sophisticated in places where demand for complex services is at its...
Why Equatorial Guinea May Host China’s First Atlantic Naval Base - The Maritime Executive
Since mid-2021, U.S. defense officials have warned that China is considering whether to build a naval base in the Central African nation of Equatorial Guinea. If built, it would be China’s second such facility in Africa and its first in the Atlantic. Although China’s sea power is predominantly based in the Pacific, its ambitions are growing. Last year, Gen. Stephen Townsend, head of U.S. Africa Command, warned of China’s dalliance with the government of Equatorial Guinea...
China knows seizing assets in Africa would be ‘very poor politics,’ says U.S. Institute of Peace - CNBC
Henry Tugendhat of the U.S.-based institute says the goal of Chinese lending in the continent is to build stronger relationships for soft power...
Al-Shabaab And Chinese Trade Practices In Mozambique - War on the Rocks
In 2020, eight Mozambican public officials and one Chinese national named Zhao were arrested for illegally harvesting and exporting timber from Cabo Delgado — Mozambique’s northernmost province — to China. According to local reports, five of the Mozambicans are awaiting trial while Zhao and three Mozambicans have been released, and the seized wood was...
Huawei, Kunlun and China’s tech giants drive a quiet revolution in Africa’s fintech with mobile payment apps and wallets - South China Morning Post
A digital revolution is quietly under way in Africa, as dozens of electronic wallets have sprouted on the continent for users to transfer money digitally through their smartphones, some of them powered by Chinese technology. One of the biggest is M-Pesa, a mobile money service established in 2007 by...
Pouring Money to Overturn Policies? Chinese Big Tech Firms Ramp Up Lobbying Efforts - Vision Times
Chinese tech companies have stepped up efforts to influence the U.S. government as spending on lobbyists has surged in recent months. The increased spending comes after Washington took strict actions against several Chinese firms due to...
China's Digital Silk Road in Africa and the Future of Internet Governance - China-Africa Research Initiative
The Digital Silk Road (DSR) is a Chinese policy initiative launched in 2015. Six years later, there is relatively little concrete information about what it has achieved so far. This study offers a preliminary analysis of what the DSR entails in Africa. We seek to understand its effectiveness as a policy initiative by measuring...
Connection issues: a study on the limitations of knowledge transfer in Huawei’s African training centres - Taylor & Francis Online
Huawei has built several training centres across Africa. This study establishes the purpose of these centres in Kenya and Nigeria and presents original data on their success based on their objectives. Fieldwork was conducted in 2018 and follow-up interviews continued by phone until 2021. I find that...