French suggests China’s place in the world today, and the increasingly robust manner in which it is engaged in the coastal areas surrounding it, must be understood through a historical lens. While there are clearly economic motivations for...
French suggests China’s place in the world today, and the increasingly robust manner in which it is engaged in the coastal areas surrounding it, must be understood through a historical lens. While there are clearly economic motivations for...
Liu Xin is one of the over 60 Chinese students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Two and a half years ago, when she started her master’s degree program, there were only 20 Chinese students attending the university.”...
Mr. Eric, the labor officer on duty this week, provided explanation for comparatively more labor disputes associated with Chinese companies. Language is considered as the leading factor. “There are language barriers for Chinese enterprises, both with labor office...
In 2011, the BBC published a documentary on Chinese migrants in Africa, titled “The Chinese Are Coming.” Barely six years later, Western media such as the Financial Times and Quartz now say the Chinese are leaving, alleging that...
Though it might seem like a throwaway summer movie, the authorities appear committed to its vision, producing a parade of breathless praise in state media. After one film critic slammed the movie online as “bloody” and “psychopathic,” her online presence disappeared,...
I spent time with four Chinese transplants living in four African countries, to find out what inspired them to embrace what many may consider a daunting transition. These are not the stories of business moguls or cultural influencers,...
A former Guinean cabinet minister, Mahmoud Thiam, 50, was sentenced to seven years in a US prison on Friday and ordered to pay back $8.5m for laundering bribes from a Chinese conglomerate in exchange for mining rights. Thiam was...
Ethiopian Airlines is finalizing feasibility studies on Shenzhen in south, Chongqing in the west, and Zhengzhou in Central China as its next destinations, according to Ethiopian News Agency. As the China-Africa relationship continues to grow, fueled by the Belt and...
The first paragraph alone was so cringe-worthy, I wasn’t sure whether I was reading a parody: The smoked monkeys brought the point home. During my first day on a boat on the Congo River, I’d embraced the unfamiliar:...
[fvplayer src=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqmFKnHG5q8″] Barbadian singer Rihanna is using her clout as a world famous pop star to support education in Malawi. Through her charity she is donating much-needed bicycles and financial support to learners to help them stay in...
It is against this backdrop that Black Panther opened in China this weekend. As a Chinese-American who has already seen — and fallen in love with — the film, I was anxious...
A study by Boston University academics shows that nearly one-third, or $6.8bn, of the $25.6bn that China’s state-owned development banks lent last year to energy projects worldwide went to African countries....