Opinions

Last week the attention of global media was centered on the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19, held via video conference in Beijing in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and with the participation of leaders of African countries and special guests, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio …

At the recent extraordinary China-Africa Summit on solidarity against COVID-19 held virtually on 17 June 2020, President Xi Jinping reassured African leaders that “China shall never waver in its determination to pursue greater solidarity and cooperation with Africa”, in spite of the evolving   international landscape. In his generosity, the Chinese …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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’ …

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 …