The Dutch-based new media organization Couscous Global recently posted an interesting little gem of a video on You Tube that asks young South Africans to express how they feel about the country’s Chinese population. It …

For most outsiders, the Chinese operations in Africa run largely as an opaque mystery.  Seemingly every Western book or in-depth news article on the subject features the same complaint of not receiving any help from …

This brief interview on Bloomberg Television highlights the dramatic differences in worldview between Westerners and Africans when it comes to their view of China.  Journalist Maryam Nemazee asks Adam Mahamat of the China-Africa Business Council …

It’s not often that senior Chinese officials make themselves available for interviews with the international media, especially in English.  So when I first heard that the BBC World Service’s “Business Today” radio program was to …

Living here in Kinshasa, it is immediately apparent that China’s engagement is re-shaping both the Democratic Republic of the Congo but the continent as a whole.    To anyone on the ground here, it should …

大多数中国人难以完全理解美国人是多么漠视发生在自己国界之外的事件。中国观察员在这方面的困惑一点都不难理解，因为从他们观察角度来看，美国是一个远比中国更为开放和全球化的国家。所以美国人怎能对重大的地理政治变化视而不见？是的，他们确实是这样的，最明显的例子就是，目前在非洲大陆，根据几个可靠的评估，美国这个最大的投资者正处在被中国替代的边缘。 “好吧，那又怎样？”那些怀疑论者会说。投资模式随着时间发生改变，有时候美国是第一，有时候不是，这是公平的。不过，我请你们考虑的一项非常重要的发展在非洲造成的后果：石油。

Before I moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo, someone asked me if I was going to learn the local language.  I replied that “I already do speak the local language there… Mandarin.”  Obviously, Mandarin …

The Chinese appear to be using the same strategy in the DRC as they are in other countries by offering low cost loans and high
profile development projects in exchange for access to the raw materials …

In so many ways, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is ground zero for China’s Africa strategy.  The DRC is a veritable supermarket for China’s mineral and natural resource needs: gold, coltan, zinc, lead, copper …

One of the central questions to consider when watching this BBC Newsnight report on China’s growing influence in Zambia is how Beijing’s insatiable need for natural resources will clash with China’s instinctive policy of non-interference …