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 and a little curious as to how the...
China’s approach is more ambitious. In recent years, it has taken steps to accrue national power on a scale that no country has attempted since the Cold War, by increasing its investments in the types of assets that...
China is wedded to “state capitalism”, and is widely viewed as a “modern mercantilist”. A former Time magazine editor, Joshua Cooper Ramo, described that model as the “Beijing Consensus.” Africa has ticked the boxes in the China model, supporting...
“The regional geopolitics in Asia get refracted outwards globally into these expressions of foreign policy,” says Padraig Carmody, the head of the geography department at Trinity College Dublin and author of, “New Scramble for Africa”. India would appear...
Although StarTimes is technically a private company with no official government affiliation, the pay TV operator is playing a vital role in China’s soft power diplomacy agenda in Africa. “There’s a huge ideological element” to StarTimes’ African operations, said...
Although StarTimes — a privately owned, Beijing-based media and telecommunications firm — is virtually unknown in the West, it has been sweeping across Africa since 2002, overhauling the continent’s broadcast infrastructure and beaming Chinese content into millions of...
