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This week, two stories appeared separately one on bbc.com news of August 25th August 2020, with a title, “Chinese phones with built-in malware sold in Africa. The second story was published by a US based website, BuzzFeed News of August 24th, 2020, with the tittle, ”Chinese- made smartphones are secretly …

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed adopting a long-term perspective, grasping the trend of the times and extensively pooling wisdom to study new circumstances and make new plans. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made …

Chinese pharmaceutical company Fosun Pharma on Tuesday donated anti-malaria drugs to Kenya’s health ministry to boost the war against the tropical disease that is the leading cause of death among pregnant women and children below five years in the country. Rashid Aman, chief administrative secretary in the Ministry of Health, …

Studying the Belt and Road Initiative, after the fact that too few people in the West pay attention to it at all, a more striking disappointment is the fact that the Western media seem to have made up their collective minds on the subject with preconceptions and political bias. Much …

Central China’s Hunan Province opened a cocoa trading centre to connect Africa, the world’s leading cocoa producer, to China’s fast-growing appetite for chocolate. The African Cocoa Marketing Centre, established in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, will start by selling cocoa mainly from Ghana before bringing in products from more …

Editor’s note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and the U.S. The article reflects the author’s opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Despite unprecedented tensions between …

China and Tanzania launched a Swahili version book documenting history of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway titled “A Monument to China-Africa Friendship. “The Swahili version book was jointly launched by Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania, Wang Ke, and Tanzanian Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Palamagamba Kabudi, in the commercial capital …

A team of Chinese medical experts arrived in South Sudan on Wednesday last week to strengthen the east African nation’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The eight-member team from China’s Anhui Province consists of experts in the fields including laboratory technology, infection, insensitive care, public health, and nursing. During their …

The African Development Bank (AfDB) just like a number of other African organisations was formed at the time when former African colonisers were leaving the continent and African governments were gaining independence and introducing “self-rule”. The bank was formed in 1964 and at the time was comprised of three entities …

U.S. President Donald Trump is at least consistent in being unpredictable: He is as an unpredictable president, just as he was an unpredictable candidate. Within the last couple of years, his administration has formulated and implemented a series of China policies that are both unprecedented and destabilizing. On August 16, …