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China and Africa: To Build a Community of Shared Future with Solidarity

We are living in an era where countries and peoples in the world are interdependent and inseparable. On one hand, we are all benefiting from globalization through international trade and technology revolution. For example, JAVA House Kenya AA coffee beans are sold to China via online platform with a profitable …

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Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

The above title is of a new captivating book by Kishore Mahbubani, a professor in the practice of public policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the author of other books including; Has the West Lost It? And The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic …

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African leaders, experts hail Xi’s remarks at Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19

African leaders and experts spoke highly of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 on Wednesday, hailing achievements of China-Africa cooperation in fighting the pandemic. In his remarks, Xi called on China and Africa to defeat the novel coronavirus with solidarity and cooperation. …

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Xi chairs China-Africa summit, calls for solidarity to defeat COVID-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called on China and Africa to defeat the novel coronavirus with solidarity and cooperation. The two sides should work together to build a China-Africa community of health for alla China-Africa community of health for all and take their comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership to …

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The Chinese are here

In the May 28, 2020, opinion column of the Guardian, there was a piece by one Abdul Rafiu with the title: “The Chinese are here”. This piece is a response to the write-up, not necessarily because it is worth responding to but because it falls within the growing spat of …

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What can Africa learn from China? Part 2

This is a continuation of our previous editorial on what Africa can learn from China. China used its natural resources and human capital, to build a very ambitious industrial base; African leadership to a large extent used its natural resources to build individual families or cliques. Sub-Saharan Africa for example …

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What can Africa learn from China? Part I

What many people particularly in Africa don’t seem to appreciate is that Contemporary China is just above 70 years, having been created in the year 1949, after 4 years of war of liberation. On 1st October 1949, Chairman of the central government Mao Zedong; proclaimed the founding of the Peoples’ …

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Ethiopia extends PM and lawmakers’ terms after elections postponed

Ethiopia’s parliament has approved allowing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to stay one more year in office after elections planned for August were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The upper house voted on Wednesday to decide whether to extend the terms of federal and regional lawmakers and the executive branch …

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When should the shooting start?

Since the 2014 Occupy Central movement, the reputation of Hong Kong police has fallen sharply from “Asia’s finest” to “riot police,” as the shadow of police brutality haunts the 30,000-member police force. Some so-called liberal media outlets and Western politicians were at the forefront of those who accused Hong Kong …

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How China moved to contain COVID-19: lessons and reflections

  China is now on its way to recovering from the COVID-19 crisis and is ready to share its experience with the rest of the world. A white paper “Fighting COVID-19: China in Action” was published on Sunday detailing the country’s efforts in containing the infectious disease, while keeping society …

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