One of the model industrial parks in Uganda is the China-Uganda Liaoshen Industrial Park in Kapeeka, Nakaseke District. About 80 different industrial establishments are spread over 5.2 square kilometres, with each sitting on a minimum of 20 acres. The name of the park is a combination of “Liao,” from Liaoning Province in northeast China and […]
China’s relationship with Uganda has played an inextricable role in developing our country into one of East and Central Africa’s major manufacturing hubs. Thanks to China’s commitment to invest in Uganda’s industrialisation, our manufacturing capacity now spans several sectors, from electronics to textiles, ceramics to steel, and more – all fuelled by factories and industrial […]
President Xi Jinping has articulated the strategy of China in the 21st Century as including adherence to science and technology as the number-one productive force, talent as the number-one resource, and innovation as the number-one driving force. China’s national-strategy is to be-the world leader in AI by 2030. Today, the United States and other Western nations […]
China has revolutionised the use of drones like no other country. Drones are no longer just play toys but key players in the technology of the future. Recently, the 9th Drone World Congress 2025 took place at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, in Shenzhen, China. Showcased were drones that can fly, swim and think for […]
On 23 October 2025, China adopted the Communique of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). This document documents China’s strategic plans for national progress as a significant global actor. During the deliberations, Chinese leader and the CCP General Secretary, Xi Jinping, affirmed the Party’s achievements […]
Dear Editor, last month on October 22, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had cancelled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was scheduled to take place in the next two weeks in Budapest, Hungary. He told reporters at the White House that “It just didn’t feel right to me,” and that […]
Putin revealed Russia’s move to deepen cooperation in the nuclear industry with countries of the Global South, within the BRICS framework, while speaking at the Russian Energy Week. This is a good development for us in the Global South, since it is apparent that nuclear energy will become one of the key structural pillars of […]
From 15 to 17 October, Russia held the 8th Russian Energy Week International Forum. The event convened over 7,000 participants from 100 countries, including government officials, heads of leading global energy companies, and experts from the scientific community. They gathered in Moscow to engage in a substantive and meaningful dialogue on the development of the fuel […]
If a nuclear war is ever to happen between the U.S. and China, Taiwan is likely to be the flashpoint of conflict. China’s differences with Taiwan date back to the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949), when the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan in 1949, following the victory of Mao Zedong’s CCP over Chiang Kai-shek’s […]
The Lobito Corridor is a rail and infrastructure project spanning 1,300 km from the port of Lobito in Angola to the mining regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia. It was originally developed in 1902 as the Benguela Railway, and its construction was completed in 1931. It was primarily engineered to connect […]
