Allawi Ssemanda

Allawi Ssemanda

Dr. Allawi Ssemanda is a Senior Research Fellow at the Development Watch Centre and Author of Global Governance and Norm Contestation: How BRICS is Reshaping the World Order. 

60 articles Joined February 2025
Diplomacy

Xi’s Speech at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit: A Global Reckoning

“This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations. It is a milestone prompting us to remember the past and create a better future together. Eighty years ago, the international community learned profound lessons from the scourge of two world wars, and founded the United Nations, thus writing […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Sep 10, 2025  •  6 min read
Investments

Trump’s Tariffs Against China: A Threat To Countries’ Legitimate  Development Rights

For almost four months now, the Trump administration has arguably rattled global trade, economists, shocked business executives and set off heated exchanges with not only the world’s second largest economy – China, but also US’s largest trading partners and allies like Canada and Mexico. While economists and corporate executives expressed concerns that such shift in […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Apr 15, 2025  •  6 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

President Xi’s Stand on Education and Talent Development at China’s Two Sessions 2025 is Welcome

At the ongoing China’s Two Sessions 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping made very important commitments as he stressed the importance of education in development. President Xi underscored the role of education in supporting scientific and technological development and talent development which he described as important for national and individual development. This, President Xi who is […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Mar 10, 2025  •  4 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

China’s path to comprehensive rural revitalization: Challenges and solutions

On 25th February 2021, Chinese President Xi Jiniping announced “complete victory” in the Country’s fight against extreme poverty. As the world louded China’s great success, President Xi observed; while his country had succeeded in eliminating absolute poverty, “the most challenging and arduous tasks we face in building a modern socialist China in all aspects remain in […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Mar 3, 2025  •  5 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

Trump’s Trade Tariffs: Evidence of American Aggression and Unreliability

In what many described as not surprising but still shocking, on Monday 10th February, the President of the United States of America (U.S), Donald J. Trump announced that Washington was slapping 25% tariffs on all aluminium and steel imports accessing the U.S market. Speaking from White House where he made the announcement, Trump reasoned these tariffs […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Feb 17, 2025  •  6 min read
Diplomacy

China’s Wang Yi Africa Visit: 2025 Will Be A Fruitful Year For Sino-Africa Relations

Dear Editor, last week, China’s top Diplomat Wang Yi completed his week-long Africa trip having visited four different African countries of Chad, the Republic of Congo, Namibia and Nigeria. The visit which marked 140th visit from Chinese top leadership to the continent since the year 2007. It was also 35th year in a row Chinese Foreign Minister […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Jan 23, 2025  •  7 min read
Development Assistance

FOCAC 2024: Xi’s Speech Attests to China’s Commitment to a Community of Common Prosperity and a Shared Future

Dear Editor, on Thursday, September 5, 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a 10-minute keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit in Beijing, China. In the address entitled; “Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a Community with a Shared Future,” President Xi explained that “the friendship between China and Africa transcends […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Sep 10, 2024  •  5 min read
FOCAC

FOCAC to Further Deepen China-Africa Cooperation

This week, from the 4th to the 6th of September, China will be hosting the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. This will be the 4th FOCAC to be held as a summit where heads of states from Africa and China meet.  Some experts have described the 2024 summit as a key means to deepen cooperation between […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Sep 5, 2024  •  5 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

3rd Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC: Announced New Reforms Will Ignite Global Cooperation

From July 15 to 18, the third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held successfully in Chinese capital, Beijing. This plenum came at a time when the world is faced with grave and complex challenges such as slow economic recovery, confrontation, power politics by some countries, and […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Jul 28, 2024  •  6 min read