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The White House’s orders banning transactions with ByteDance and Tencent, the owners of TikTok and WeChat respectively, on the pretext that the two apps “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States” is part of the administration’s “Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets” program to ban …

The digital economy is crucial in today’s world. It’s a pillar on which world economies hedge their future. Unfortunately, women in Africa’s informal sector have very low exposure and access to digital services. Due to the developing state of all African countries, a majority of the female population lives in …

Thanks to the targeted poverty alleviation policy, China has made remarkable achievements in reducing poverty, with the number of people living in absolute poverty declining from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019, and the poverty incidence decreasing from 10.2 percent to …

2020 is the final year for China to secure a decisive and complete victory in the fight against absolute poverty. It is also a meaningful year for Wang because he is going to pay off his three-year poverty alleviation microloans and say farewell to his old impoverished days. Wang, a …

Windhoek – Construction of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) headquarters will start soon after the African Union and China’s Ministry of Commerce signed an MoU for the project to commence, despite protests from United States. Africa CDC was launched in 2017 as a long-term response to the …

The uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have introduced profound disruptions, threatening to reverse the accumulated gains in the global economy and causing business interruptions, job losses, employee furloughs－even complete shutdowns of companies. Governments around the world are implementing various fiscal measures to mitigate the adverse effects and provide …

Senior diplomat points out ‘enormous benefits’ of engagement to two countries China’s senior diplomat, Yang Jiechi, urged Washington on Friday to avoid strategic miscalculation about China-US relations and work with Beijing to bring bilateral ties back to the right track. Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central …

In early May 2020, President Xi Jinping said that it took China over a month to achieve initial success in curbing the spread of the coronavirus and three months to win a decisive victory in defending Wuhan City and Hubei Province. For China, with a large population of 1.4 billion, …

China’s swift pandemic response puts nation in position to play key role in global recovery China could emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a more dominant economy, replacing the United States as the world’s largest within the current decade, according to experts. The world’s second-largest economy recorded 3.2 percent growth …

How can South Africa build a moderately prosperous society? Is it possible, under the current South Africa-China relationship, for China to serve as a vector catalyst for building a moderately prosperous society? The per capita disposable income in South Africa could easily challenge that of prosperous nations such as Kuwait …