Category : Foreign Policy Analysis
The cost of prejudice: Rethinking China
By Admin
April 17th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi Almost everything I know about China thus far, I have learnt from Western philosophers, academics, politicians and journalists. Many of the ideas that shape how I view China were not read in a Chinese library or university or from Baidu, China’s internet search engine company. They came from Google. They came […]
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Scapegoating: The Bipartisan Front Against China in U.S. Politics
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April 15th, 2024
By Moshi Israel In recent years, the landscape in U.S. domestic politics has been characterised by increasing polarisation and a tendency to attribute internal challenges to external actors. The main victim for this finger-pointing has been China. This trend not only highlights the strain in U.S.-China relations but also points to a broader mechanism at […]
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China’s Concept of Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: A Game Changer for an Ideal World
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April 15th, 2024
By Allawi Ssemanda Explaining that currently, “the international security situation is grim, economic recovery lacks momentum, and the gap in development is widening,” Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the concept of building a community of a shared future for mankind.” This was 2013, and President Xi was answering what China called the historical question of the […]
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Uganda needs to Leverage its Bilateral Relations with China to Maintain its Growth Trajectory
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April 4th, 2024
By Musiime George The past year was a mixture of two emotional hues for Uganda following the enactment of the anti homosexuality law. Whereas proponents of the law celebrated and rejoiced in its enactment, critics and activists alike were concerned that the law would unleash an array of rights concerns in Uganda. However, besides this […]
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Dying Empires and Shifting Powers: Western Nightmares of the Ascendant Dragon
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March 26th, 2024
By Moshi Israel The world is undergoing rapid transformation, a reality of which nearly everyone is acutely aware, thanks in large part to the advanced technologies at our disposal that capture these shifts in real time. This has led to a palpable sense of alarm over the intensity and pace of these changes. Many current […]
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Africa-China Cooperation: Dar-Es-salaam Consensus is Right Step to Building a Community of Shared Future
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March 25th, 2024
By George Musiime While describing China-Africa cooperation, Chinese officials have always argued that there are two fundamental thrust forces to the thriving cooperation between China and Africa. The two are; one, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and two, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The FOCAC, is also the flagship vehicle for people to people exchanges […]
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Build Back Better World v BRI: Can Africa Benefit From Development Finance Competition?
By Admin
March 18th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi There is a competition. A spending competition. The spending is in trillion dollars. Developing countries are participants. Participating from an interesting position. Participating as recipients. Imagine that. Being at the receiving end of a spending competition! Whereas both foreign aid and development finance are projects that pursue development objectives in developing […]
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Uganda-China Should Collaborate on Climate Financing
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March 18th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi I wish to first pre-empt the scepticism shared by some people about the feasibility of different modes of climate finance and the efficacy of their impact on mitigating climate change. The climate finance architecture easily seems to be capitalism’s mode of commercialising climate change without solving it. I am partly doubtful […]
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China-Africa cooperation is more than just a silver lining, it is the blue
By Admin
March 12th, 2024
By George Musiime In an interview with CGTN last year, Mr. Wu Peng, director general of the department of African affairs in the Chinese foreign affairs ministry summed up the Chinese government’s view of its interactions with Africa in a single memorable statement in which he noted that “Africa is a big stage for international […]
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Should We Celebrate ICC’s Award to LRA Victims?
By Admin
March 8th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi Towards the close of February 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a record reparations order, compensating about 50,000 victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) up to $56 million (Shs.222 billion). Most of those compensated were particularly victims of LRA’s former rebel commander Dominic Ongwen who was convicted in 2021 […]
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