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Challenging the myth of Chinese control in Africa |
May 13, 2012 |
| This week on the podcast: a rebuke to a recent NY Time's opinion piece from the Committee to Protect Journalists that links Chinese investment tin Africa to increased media suppression on the content | It's a widely-held perception that Chinese SOEs operating in Africa work under the control of Beijing authorities. Not so says our special guest, South Africa-based China-Africa analyst Lu Jinghao | A recent editorial calls for Africa states to make Chinese investors work harder for the continent's cash and natural resources. |
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China's strategic interests in Sudan |
May 6, 2012 |
| Special guest Zhang Zhongwen joins us from the University of Edinburgh to discuss: China's new diplomatic challenges mediating the conflict in Sudan | the surge in African FDI | the misconceptions surrounding China's engagement in Zambia. |
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China's dollar diplomacy in South Sudan |
April 29, 2012 |
| The Chinese extend a massive 8 billion dollar loan to South Sudan but will that help resolve the RSS' burgeoning conflict with Sudan? | Ghana is now hitching its financial future to China as Accra accepts more and more of Beijing's cash | The debate of over traditional Western aid in Africa versus that from China and other rising powers. Special guest this week: Kwabena Akuamoah-Boateng from the Ghana election project "Ghana Decides" joins us from Accra. |
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Ghana: the new Chinese tributary state? |
April 21, 2012 |
| Ghana goes forward with a $1 billion loan and considers another $6 billion loan | The Sudan conflict deepens, drawing China in ever deeper | A new research report on Chinese traders across southern Africa. |
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Uproar: South Africa's Olympic team outfits to be made in China |
April 8, 2012 |
| The 2012 & 2016 South African Olympic squads will be equipped with uniforms made by Chinese athletic wear company Erke | China-Malawi ties | the prospects for enhanced Sino-African eLearning programs | A Zimbabwe newspaper speculates that Chinese officials have secretly led a coup. |
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China's new man in Africa: Zhong Jinahua |
April 1, 2012 |
| Caixin Media does a revealing interview with China's new top diplomat in Africa | Guinea's iron ore reserves attract the attention of some of China's biggest state owned enterprises | China plans to invest a billion dollars in Portuguese-speaking states around the world, including those in Africa. So what does this have to do with Taiwain? |
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If China gets a cold does Africa get pneumonia? |
March 25, 2012 |
| South Africa's increasing dependency on China spooks investors, prompting a sell-off of the rand | China's massive infrastructure projects prompts new concerns that the quality and maintenance of the new roads, bridges and stadiums are not worth it | Beijing sinks deeper into the Sudanese quagmire as both countries draw China deeper into their conflict. |
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China-Zambia ties on the up and up |
March 18, 2012 |
| China's ties appear to be improving with Zambia when many had thought that the new president Michael Sata would have the opposite effect | Tanzania is now the MOST important country for China in East Africa. Surprised? | A breakdown of the landmark Sicomines deal in the DRC and why after all these years it's still largely misunderstood by the outside world. |
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From 'Made in China' to 'Made in Ethiopia' |
March 11, 2012 |
| One of the China's largest leather shoe manufacturer's plans a huge $2 billion investment in Ethiopia | A growing number of African governments add the Chinese currency, the Yuan, to their foreign reserve portfolio | 32 Chinese killed in South Africa in 2011 | Can China hold on to its policy of non-intervention amid an increasingly large political and economic footprint. |
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China rolls into South Africa with massive new auto investment |
March 4, 2012 |
| China's First Automobile Works announced a $100 million investment plan to build light trucks and passenger cars in South Africa's Coega industrial development zone in the Eastern Cape. This week on the China in Africa Podcast, Eric & Cobus explore the strategy behind Chinese auto manufacturers' push to build more cars and trucks on the continent. |
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China's Sudanese quagmire |
February 19, 2012 |
| China's once groundbreaking investment in Sudan's nascent oil sector may now be coming back to haunt Beijing as warring parties in North and South Sudan draw the Chinese deeper into their civil conflict. In the wake of dozens of Chinese nationals kidnapped by South Sudanese rebels, there are fresh warnings that South Sudan may now expel Chinese oil firms if they are found to be 'illegally trading' with the North. |
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China in Africa Podcast: Beijing grapples with hostage politics |
February 5, 2012 |
| Two hostage crises in the same week for the Chinese in Africa may be a new record. It may also portend a dramatic new challenge confronting policy makers in Beijing as they now grapple with the new reality that their citizens make for easy prey in some of the continent's most volatile regions. This week on the podcast, Eric Olander is re-joined by his China Talking Points co-host Michael McCune for a discussion on the policy implications of the spate of Chinese kidnappings in Sudan and Egypt. |
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China in Africa Podcast: Beijing's stadium diplomacy across Africa |
January 29, 2012 |
| Tens of thousands of Africa Cup of Nations football fans are cheering on their favorite clubs in Libreville in Gabon's newest stadium built with the generosity of the Chinese government. This week on the podcast, we explore whether this so-called 'stadium diplomacy' is actually worth it and if it does in fact provide inroads for Beijing in places like Libreville. Also, we'll discuss the red hot African M&A market along with a review of Eric's most recent blog post on who is exactly are the Chinese in Africa? |
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China's big media push in Africa |
January 15, 2012 |
| China is embarking on an aggressive media campaign in Africa with the launch of CCTV's new broadcast operation in Nairobi, Kenya. The network says it hopes to join BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera among the major players in the international news business. Both Cobus and Eric have their doubts that Beijing is actually capable of attaining that goal given the fact that CCTV does not have a very good track record producing compelling content for an international audience. |
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China in Africa Podcast: China's not interfering, it's mediating |
December 13, 2011 |
| China's top diplomat for Africa, Liu Guijin, intervenes to try and resolve the brewing dispute between South Sudan and Sudan. China's role as mediator is really a first and raises the question as to whether or not this represents Beijing's enhanced global stature or just one a one-off based on China's huge oil investments in the region. We also take a look at how opposition parties in Ghana are drawing lessons on how to position China in upcoming elections. Finally, why it's so incredibly annoying each time the word "colonialism" appears in Western media analysis of the Chinese in Africa. |
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China in Africa Podcast: China's old friend in Africa edition |
November 29, 2011 |
| Episode 2 of the China in Africa podcast: we begin in Ethiopia where the Chinese recently closed a 100 million dollars water supply loan while. Cobus and Eric discuss how this type of project differs from the engagement offered by the United States in the country. Then, we delve into the complexities of China's relations with Zimbabwe and why it alone chooses to stand by Robert Mugabe. Finally, in honor of the November 28 elections in the DRC, we conclude with a discussion on China's increasingly important ties to the DR Congo. |
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