Podcast
The China in Africa Podcast
Episodes — page 8
- [DOUBLE EPISODE] The China-Africa Summit Debrief
The three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit wrapped up in Beijing on Friday. The big headline from this year's gathering was the announcement that China will pro…
- [GLOBAL SOUTH] Why the U.S. is Struggling to Compete in the Global Competition for Critical Resources
U.S. officials have spoken at length about the urgent need to end their country's dependency on China for the critical resources needed to power next-generation mobility and techno…
- [BONUS EPISODE] Chinese, African Perspectives on the FOCAC SummitBonus
This year's Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit comes at a critical time for governments in both regions. While China is embroiled in an increasingly contentious great…
- David Monyae on the Politics of FOCAC
Final preparations are underway for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, which begins on September 4th in Beijing. This year's event comes at a particularly fraug…
- [GLOBAL SOUTH] View From Israel: China's Growing Influence in the Middle East
In September 2023, just weeks before Hamas' devastating terrorist attack on October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign policy advisors were preparing for a summ…
- Energy is Going to be the Hot Topic at Upcoming China-Africa Summit
African leaders will soon travel to Beijing to participate in the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, which will begin on September 4th. Many of those heads of state…
- African Priorities at the Upcoming China Summit
African leaders and their delegations are making final preparations to travel to Beijing soon for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit that will begin on September…
- [GLOBAL SOUTH] Westlessness: A New Era Where the West Still Matters, Just Not as Much
Chinese President Xi Jinping has long touted the East's rise and the West's decline, the kind of thinking that's triggered his supporters to fantasize about a post-Western geopolit…
- China-Africa Summit Preview: What's on the Agenda for FOCAC 9?
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit is now less than a month away. Chinese President Xi Jinping will host dozens of African leaders in Beijing in the first week of…
- Jendayi Frazer on U.S.-China Geopolitical Competition in Africa
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week on what the U.S. needs to do to better compete with China in Africa a…
- [GLOBAL SOUTH] The ASEAN Wonk on Great Power Politics in Southeast Asia
The foreign ministers from China, the U.S., Japan, and Russia, among others, all passed through the Laotian capital, Vientiane, over the past several days, ostensibly for an ASEAN…
- A New Vision for European Engagement in Africa (Beyond Confronting China)
Europe is Africa's largest trading partner and its largest source of foreign direct investment. But a lot of that economic engagement is powered by inertia, left over from Europe's…
- China-Africa Relations as Seen From the United States
As Chinese engagement in Africa steadily increased over the past twenty-five years, the U.S. has struggled to respond. Africa has consistently been a low priority in U.S. foreign p…
- Who Gets to Tell the Africa-China Story?
So much of the framing of Chinese engagement in Africa is done through the prism of Western media, academia, government, and civil society. Stories about debt traps, malign influen…
- The Impact of Chinese Overcapacity on Developing Countries
South Africa this week joined a growing list of developing countries around the world to introduce tariffs on certain Chinese imports in a bid to protect local producers. Indonesia…
- WEEK IN REVIEW: Chinese Debt and the Anti-Government Revolt in Kenya
Protestors in Kenya this week expressed fury against the government and the IMF but interestingly made no mention of China during an unprecedented uprising in Nairobi. It's notable…
- [GLOBAL SOUTH] The Crisis in the South China Sea Enters a Dangerous New Phase
The violent confrontation between China and the Philippines on June 17th near the Second Thomas Shoal marked a sharp escalation in tensions between the two countries over their riv…
- How China's Changing Economy is Impacting Africa?
Back in the early 2000s, when Chinese engagement in Africa started to ramp up, China was enjoying double-digit growth and devoured vast quantities of African oil, minerals, and tim…
- It's Time to Take the BRICS More Seriously
The BRICS group has existed since 2009 and has done little to distinguish itself in 15 years. They created a mid-sized development bank, but other than that, the bloc's accomplishm…
- The Future of Chinese Development Finance in Africa
Chinese development finance in Africa today is a small fraction of what it was a decade ago when Beijing's policy banks provided billions of dollars in loans to countries across th…
