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

NATO Leaders’ Remarks on China are Hypocritical and Super Reckless

Leaders of NATO from 11-12th of July met in Lithuania’s capital. The two days summit was attended by among others U.S President Joe Biden, United Kingdom ruler Rishi Sunak, Canada’s Justin Trudeau and France’s Emmanuel Macron. The Summit ended with leaders of the alliance issuing a communique containing 90 different points. In what appears to […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Jul 18, 2023  •  7 min read
Development Assistance

China-Uganda Cooperation: Building of a Community of Shared future for Mankind in the New Era

For over six decades, relations between China and Uganda have been growing from strength to strength and in 2019, the cooperation between the two brotherly countries reached a new level with the two sides upgrading their bilateral ties to a comprehensive cooperative partnership. Four years later, looking the practical cooperation between the two countries, the […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Jun 22, 2023  •  5 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

Why Taiwan’s Tsai “Transit-Diplomacy” & Speaker McCarthy Meeting Threaten World Peace

On Wednesday the 5th this month, U.S.A House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California, U.S.A where he pledged what he described as U.S. A’s “unwavering” support for Taiwan. This prompted condemnation from Beijing which maintains that the self-ruled Island is a breakaway of mainland China and therefore an inalienable part of […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Apr 13, 2023  •  7 min read
Diplomacy

China’s Global Security Initiative is Good for Global Security

Explaining that “Security is a major issue bearing on the world’s future and survival of humanity,” China’s foreign minister H.E. Qin Gang told global leaders during the Opening Ceremony of the Lanting Forum on the Global Security Initiative that; “the world today is not a tranquil place: changes unseen in a century are fast evolving, […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Mar 1, 2023  •  6 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

America’s Long-Arm Jurisdiction Threatens Sovereignty and Human Rights

For decades, the U.S has on numerous occasions unilaterally announced sanctions targeting foreign companies involved in trade Washington deem against their interests through the so-called long-arm jurisdiction. Long-arm jurisdiction refers to jurisdiction over persons or entities domiciled or resident outside the territory of the sanctioning state. It was unilaterally established after a case of International […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Feb 9, 2023  •  6 min read
Foreign Policy Analysis

New Chinese Foreign Minister First Trip A Sign China Puts Great Importance to Sino-Africa Relations

Last week, China’s new foreign minister, Qin Gang started his new term as China’s Foreign Minister with a weeklong trip to Africa visiting 5 African nations. The five countries are; Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin, and Egypt. Also, on list of his first foreign visit since his appointment as China’s foreign minister, Qin visited African Union […]

Allawi Ssemanda  •  Jan 19, 2023  •  6 min read