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How private Chinese companies are winning in Africa, by Anzetse Were

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Full text below. First published on Published April 15, 2022, here: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/04/15/fortitude-resilience-and-ability-how-private-chinese-companies-are-winning-in-africa/ Africa-China economic relations are dominated by state-to-state interactions, but Chinese private companies are making a unique impact on the continent’s economic transformation. Here’s how. Economic relations […]

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The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

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By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire at The Atlantic, source here: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/ The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with. China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive […]

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China’s long war on poverty

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By Carlos Martinez, Co-Editor at Friends of Socialist China. Original post here: https://socialistchina.org/2022/06/19/chinas-long-war-on-poverty/ This article by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing war against poverty. In addition to discussing the […]

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Assad, Syria and China’s New Silk Road

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by Matthew Ehret. “China’s President Xi Jinping spoke with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, saying “we welcome the Syrian side’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Development Initiative” First published here: https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/12/09/assad-syria-and-chinas-new-silk-road/ Ever since Russia and […]

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This wave of anti-China feeling masks the west’s own Covid-19 failures, by Richard Horton

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“The threat of coronavirus should kindle global cooperation, not a new cold war.” The Guardian, full article below, original post here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/covid-19-cold-war-china-western-governments-international-peace “From the very beginning of this pandemic, legitimate questions have been asked about what Chinese authorities […]

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‘Our ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran failed — unless the goal was to help China’, Washington Post

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A rebuke to the Trump regime, from the WP Editorial Board. July 21, 2020. Original post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/our-maximum-pressure-on-iran-failed–unless-the-goal-was-to-help-china/2020/07/20/484ae90a-c847-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html THE TRUMP administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has manifestly failed to achieve either its stated or unstated aims: It […]