Category : Belt and Road Initiative


Xi Jinping’s Call for a Win-Win Partnerships Should Be The Basis For Modern Diplomacy

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September 25th, 2024

By Alan Collins Mpewo, The speech by His Excellence Xi Jinping as the keynote address during the just concluded opening of the 9th FOCAC Ministerial Conference was timely. The contents came at a time when the world is in times fragile relations among countries. The globalisation agenda in the early stages of the FOCAC’s formation […]

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China-Africa Relations: An Agreement Built in Glue

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September 25th, 2024

By Salim Abila Asuman Have you ever tried gluing two pieces of paper together that are reluctant to stick together, one hesitant to adhere and prefers to do lumps with the stickier paste? Welcome to the world of building agreements where it is not only about making the glue work, but it is equally important […]

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The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation 9: The Journey Over The Last Two Decades

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August 28th, 2024

By Musanjufu Benjamin Kavubu. From September 4th to 6th  the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will take place in Beijing. This comes at a very critical time for South South-Cooperation, the world economy has slowed down mainly because of the impacts of the last Pandemic and the ongoing 54 major conflicts around the world that affect Africa and […]

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Beyond the Debt Trap Narrative: Examining China's Infrastructure Investments in Uganda

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July 18th, 2024

By Shemei Ndawula It is said that when you owe the bank one million shillings, you have got a problem, and when you owe the bank 1 billion shillings, the bank has a problem. The narrative of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a “debt trap” for developing nations has gained significant traction. However looking […]

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THE AID TO AID US IN DOING AWAY WITH AID

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February 13th, 2024

By Salim Abila Asuman The nation breathes in a symphony of fiscal toxins, with each exhale dealing a crushing blow to its fragile economy. Loans of all kinds now sit on its people’s shoulders, tasked with bearing the weight of unjustified financial obligations. National debts, the financial chains binding governments come in various haunting forms […]

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Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative

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February 8th, 2024

By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi Probably you have heard about it. Probably not. What is it? Let us first understand what it isn’t. Many initiatives from China suffer from being misunderstood, even at the highest echelons of policy experts around the world. This is due to the saturation in public media internationally by Western propaganda and […]

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China is Shifting To A Green Belt And Road Initiative In Africa

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November 20th, 2023

By Steven Akabwayi When I was researching China’s policy on climate, a friend of mine recommended to me a book titled “China Urban Evolution by Austin Williams”, in the book, Austin writes about the mythological China character known as “Yu the Great”, Yu was a founder of the Zia dynasty between 2100 to 1600 BC, […]

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Belt And Road Initiative: 10 Years of Transforming Africa

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November 4th, 2023

By Steven Akabwayi In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which emerged to be one of the most significant and greatest projects of the 21st century according to experts.  By June 2023, over 152 countries and organizations had signed agreements related to BRI including the African Union as bloc. […]

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China’s Belt And Road Initiative is Good for Uganda and the Region at Large

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November 1st, 2023

By Steven Akabwayi   “Uganda and China have established deep-rooted and unshakable political mutual trust that have seen remarkable achievements in bilateral Economic Cooperation” These were President Museveni’s remarks in 2019 in an interview with People’s Daily an official Newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After approving the national vision […]

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Xi’s Third Belt & Road Forum Speech Re-affirms China’s Commitment to Building a Community of Shared Prosperity

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October 26th, 2023

By Allawi Ssemanda Last week, the world leaders gathered in Chinese capital Beijing as leaders from over 150 countries, and representatives of international organisations met in Beijing for the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The event also marked 10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Jointly implemented by participating partners, […]

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