China in Africa

What are China’s interests in the Central African state, and vice versa?

Africa and the Middle East provide conducive conditions for China and Russia to advance their shared and separate agendas.  

The DRC has purchased Chinese attack drones, raising concerns about China’s role in exacerbating the DRC-Rwanda conflict.

A look at the priorities the AU, Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin, and Egypt have for their relationships with China.

To effectively mitigate the influence of Huawei and other Chinese tech giants in Africa, the U.S. must position itself as a willing and reliable alternative partner.

Beijing has succeeded by responding to African governments' precise needs, against a backdrop of lingering mistrust of the West.

A closer look at the trends and differences in Japanese vs. Chinese lending to Kenya.

African countries have the agency to use relations with China to their own advantage. Whether African leaders will use their power to benefit their people is another question.

The implications of Beijing’s progression from donating vials of the vaccine to setting up production in the continent are hard to ignore, especially for the leaders of the Quad.

While its bauxite and iron ore deposits make Guinea important to China, context is everything.

Taiwan's new representative office in Hargeisa not only gives Taipei another connection to the African continent, but also establishes a new model of relations that could be extended to other states.