Belt and Road

By Siviwe Feketha Aug 6, 2020Johannesburg – Africa will need China’s involvement if the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area’s (AfCFTA) is to yield good results.This is according to United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s chief for energy, infrastructure Dr Robert Lisinge, who also indicated that the partnership…

GEORGE TOWN: China continues to see Malaysia as a destination of choice for investment opportunities, says its consul-general in Penang, Lu Shiwei (pix). This is especially so with fresh data emerging that the economic powerhouse has now restored growth despite the Covid-19 threat. “With China’s ability to restore growth despite…

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Medical specialists wearing protective equipment work at the coronavirus disease testing facility in Almaty, Kazakhstan, earlier this month. Photo: ReutersChinese ambassador reaffirms ties in phone call to Kazakh health minister WHO says many cases in the Central Asian nation were likely Covid-19 but just not diagnosed correctly Topic |   KazakhstanPublished: 7:19pm,…

In an Alaska-sized chunk of western China known as Xinjiang, the greatest human rights atrocities of this unfurling decade continue to sprint forward, tipping toward genocide. The region has long been coveted by authorities in Beijing; standing in the way of their settler-colonial designs is the fact that the area…

USA vs China rivalry Getty Made in China “Made in China” used to mean cheap and poor quality, and probably involving the theft of intellectual property somewhere along the line. That perception has been out of date for many years now. Counterfeiting by Chinese manufacturers is still a major problem…

Sometimes, a seemingly rhetorical statement or a symbolic political decision has the undesirable ability to fundamentally alter the material reality around a particular issue, especially when it comes to sensitive international disputes and conflicts. The impact of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s decision on Kashmir in 2019 on the current…

In 1996, when only a few hundred thousand people were online in China, the government issued a historic edict. At the time, few people noticed Beijing’s move to bar unfiltered access to the global Internet. But this was the origin of the so-called “Great Firewall” – a separate Chinese Internet…

Hong Kong (CNN)After over four decades of saber-rattling and minor scuffles, a border dispute between China and India has again turned fatal. At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a bloody brawl with Chinese troops on Monday in the Galwan Valley, close to Aksai Chin, an area controlled by…

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union fired a warning shot at China over its global trade ambitions with an unprecedented tariff decision to counter Chinese subsidies to exporters.For the first time, the EU on Monday took aim at alleged market-distorting aid granted by a country to exporters located in another state.…