Analysis by Allawi Ssemanda and Aziz Kalisa. Vice President Joe Biden talks with Chinese Vice President Xi and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a luncheon at the State Department, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2012. Curtesy Photo. For Read More …
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Chinese peacekeepers Boast South Sudan’s police with supplies to fight COVID-19.
Central Equatoria, South Sudan The Chinese peacekeepers have donated supplies to help South Sudan’s Central Equatoria regional police to contain COVID-19. According to information posted on Chinese embassy in South Sudan, Chinese UN police (UNPOL) serving in the United Nations Read More …
Seven Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: How are Developing Countries Benefiting?
By Ssemanda Allawi. In 2013 – seven years ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a set of speeches where he announced the proposal of the now famous Belt Road Initiative (BRI). Xi delivered the first speech about BRI during his Read More …
Damaging Lies: Sri Lankan Port Deal With China not a ‘Debt Trap’
By Ssemanda Allawi and Ntende Trevor Damaging lies: Sri Lankan port deal with China not a ‘debt trap’ In December 2017 Sri Lankan government agreed to lease their major southern port Hambantota which was built by Chinese, a development that Read More …
Africa and China Share Common Approach to Climate Change.
By David Monyae Weather patterns across the globe are signalling that climate change will bring about catastrophic calamities to all of us. Increasingly, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising sea levels, warming oceans, thawing permafrost, changing rain and snow patterns are adversely Read More …
Africa Must Look East to Revive Economy Post Covid-19
By David Monyae The African economy has been severely impacted by the ravaging pandemic and a reeling world economy. It has driven economies into recessions and reversed many developmental plans, with more people left unemployed. This begs the question, where Read More …
U.S. Violated Trade Rules With Tariffs on China, World Trade Organization Says.
By Bryce Baschuk, Bloomberg. The World Trade Organization undercut the main justification for President Donald Trump’s trade war against China, saying that American tariffs on Chinese goods violate international rules. A panel of three WTO trade experts on Tuesday said Read More …
How to manufacture a ‘new cold war’ with China
By Rachel Esplin Odell. In recent months, many observers have sounded the alarm that hardening U.S. policy toward China could provoke a “new cold war.” As I wrote with my colleague, Quincy Institute Deputy Director of Research and Policy Stephen Wertheim in the New York Times, hawkish members of Read More …
U.S – UK Huawei Ban: Tecnationalism or a Looming New Tech Cold War?
By Ssemanda Allawi. After several months of U.S’ campaign against Chinese telecom giant Huawei claiming the move was due to security concerns, United Kingdom (UK) gave in to Washington’s fear-mongering as London announced a decision to lock Huawei Read More …
US’ Decision to Close Chinese Consulate is a Cobweb of Politics: Trump Administration is Creating Diversionary
By Ssemanda Allawi. In a bizarre and an unprecedented move in Diplomacy and International Relations field, on Tuesday 21st, the U.S gave China 72 hours to close its Consulate-General in Houston, Texas a move that in many ways violates International Read More …