The China in Africa Podcast
A weekly discussion on China's engagement across Africa hosted by veteran journalist Eric Olander in Asia and Dr. Cobus van Staden in Johannesburg.
- Website
- http://www.chinaafricaproject.com
- Description
- A lively discussion on China's engagement across Africa hosted by veteran journalist Eric Olander in Asia and Dr. Cobus van Staden in Johannesburg.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-31 17:39
- last episode published
- 2025-01-31 03:10
- publication frequency
- 5.32 days
- Contributors
- Eric Olander & Cobus van Staden
- Author
- The China Africa Project
- Owner
- eric@chinaafricaproject.com (eric@chinaafricaproject.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 843
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- Society & Culture News Business
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-31 | The Trump administration's decision to issue a 90-day freeze on most foreign assistance around the world will have a disproportionate impact on a number of African countries that rely heavily on U.S. aid. The State Department's "stop work" order has le... |
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| 2025-01-28 | When Donald Trump criticized Panama for its management of the canal that he claimed had fallen under Chinese control, many people at first thought this was just another round of Trump's usual bluster. But since his election last November, the President... |
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| 2025-01-24 | Donald Trump roared back into power this week, signing dozens of executive orders on his first day that upended large parts of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. The president withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, the Paris Climat... |
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| 2025-01-17 | Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the State Department, Marco Rubio, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week as part of the confirmation process. Rubio testified for more than three hours and made it very c... |
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| 2025-01-16 | On Monday, January 20th, Donald Trump will take the oath of office and return to power as president of the United States. Trump is promising to overhaul U.S. foreign and commercial policy in what many experts believe will mark the start of a very tumul... |
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| 2025-01-10 |
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Wraps Up Low Key Africa Tour Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ended a four-nation Africa tour on Thursday that included stops in Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria. Other than a $255 million railway loan deal for Nigeria, there were very few other major announcement... |
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| 2025-01-08 |
Why Views About China Are So Different in the Global North and South China is deeply unpopular in the U.S., UK, Japan, and most other wealthy countries, and given the politics in those regions, there's no indication that's going to change anytime soon. It's a very different story, though, in large parts of developing As... |
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| 2024-12-25 | 2024 will be remembered as a seminal year in China-Africa relations with a rebound of Chinese lending to the continent and renewed diplomatic engagement in the run-up to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit that took place in Beijing. Africa al... |
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| 2024-12-20 | Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised a lot of people last month when he made an unannounced stopover in Morocco on his way home from the G20 summit in Brazil. The North African country doesn't often come to mind when considering China's key geopoliti... |
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| 2024-12-16 |
[GLOBAL SOUTH] Don't Expect a Resolution to the South China Sea Crisis in 2025 Tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea flared anew in December after another confrontation at sea. Soon after two vessels collided near the contested Scarborough Shoal, representatives from both side... |
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