Opinions

Experts Urge African Nations to Invest in Climate-Resilient Roads

Published: December 29, 2021 Pixabay Africa’s current roads infrastructure meets only 17% of the continent’s transport needs. However, according to Olufunso Somorin, the African Development Bank’s East Africa Regional Principal Officer for Climate Change and Green Growth, the low figure has some upside. He says that the gap presents an opportunity for …

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China-Africa cooperation upgraded

Published: December 28, 2021 By Chen Zhaoyuan             LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has transformed into a comprehensive strategic and cooperation platform for China and African countries. The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Dakar, Senegal, recently injected new …

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Experts: US ‘Uyghur act’ aims to harm China’s image

Published: December 28,2021 By LIU HONGJIE in Beijing, XU WEIWEI in Hong Kong,XU WEIWEI and WANG XU in Tokyo   A Uygur family harvests ripe grapes in Turpan, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/People’s Daily Online] United States President Joe Biden’s signing into law of the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor …

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China and Africa cooperation has reached a new climax in 2021: Chinese Foreign Minister

By Staff writer  Chinese State councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E Wang Yi, disclosed that China and Africa cooperation has reached a new climax. The Foreign minister said this while speaking at a symposium on the International Sutiation and China’s Foreign Relations in 2021, under the theme: China’s Diplomacy in 2021: Embracing …

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Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Laureate Dies at 90

By John Allen  Desmond & Leah Tutu Foundation Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu lived his life with passion, courage, faith and deep insight, but it was a life lived against the odds. Sickly at birth, as an infant he survived polio, which left him with a permanently weakened right …

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‘Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act’-U.S’s new political weapon against China

Published: December 26, 2021 By Gerald Mbanda A view of a cotton farm in Xinjiang on Friday Photo: Li Xuanmin/GT The recent signing of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law by US President Joe Biden is a politically motivated move and an act of provocation aimed at destabilizing and isolating China.  The so called forced labour in Xinjiang is a lie that U.S. authorities invented and want to use it …

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Xinjiang’s first desert-crossing expressway opens to traffic

Published: December 26, 2021 In this aerial photo, vehicles pave a section of a cross-desert expressway with asphalt in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 16, 2021. (Xinhua/Gao Han) The first cross-desert expressway in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region officially opened to traffic on Saturday, cutting travel time between cities …

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China Society for Human Rights Studies report worth reading

Published: December 25, 2021 By Anthony Moretti Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. /Getty A new report from the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) may be ignored throughout the United States, which would be inappropriate. Instead, the claims made about the shortcomings …

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Kenyan president hails Chinese-built expressway as key infrastructure project

Published: December 25, 2021 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday hailed the Chinese-built Nairobi Expressway as a key infrastructure project. Kenyatta said that the highway is bound to reduce the traffic gridlock that people have experienced and that has added to the cost of doing business in the country. “That …

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Hong Kong SAR elects new legislature under improved electoral system

Published: December 24,2021 Voters wait to cast ballots at a polling station in Whampoa, Hong Kong, south China, Dec. 19, 2021. Xinhua/Wang Shen — Electoral Affairs Commission official said election was conducted in an open, fair and honest manner. — Newly-elected lawmakers and authorities in Hong Kong have highlighted the significance of the …

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