Exporting 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 This post is translated from an unpublished article written by one of them, Hu Jianlong 胡剑龙, a senior...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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