China’s Africa strategy is shifting from extraction to investment
Aug 25, 2023 08:01 am UTC| Economy
China experienced a massive economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s which increased its demand for resource imports, like oil, from Africa. This led to a model of development finance in which China funded infrastructure in...
A century after the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese women still face challenges in Canada
Jul 11, 2023 07:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
This July marks a century since the Chinese Exclusion Act was introduced in Canada. On June 23, a plaque was unveiled in the Senate in Ottawa to mark the centenary. While the act was in force, Chinese immigrants to...
COVID is running rampant in China – but herd immunity remains elusive
Jan 24, 2023 05:37 am UTC| Health
After nearly three years of keeping COVID under control, China is experiencing a massive new wave of COVID infections. The official figures reporting 60,000 deaths between December 8 and January 12 are widely seen as...
China property crisis: why the housing market is collapsing – and the risks to the wider economy
Aug 24, 2022 10:57 am UTC| Economy
China has been trimming interest rates recently in contrast to other major economies as it tries to stem the economic effects of its zero-COVID policy and address a growing property crisis. The countrys traditionally...
Silenced in China: the COVID 'truth-tellers' and political dissent
Jul 18, 2021 10:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in early 2020, one focus of international reporting has been the Chinese authorities handling of the story. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, AP, among others, have...
Jul 01, 2021 03:42 am UTC| Politics
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in full swing to prepare for the 100th anniversary of its founding this week, with an intense publicity push to crow about its achievements. However, the CCP has little to celebrate...
Why politicians should be wary of publicly pursuing the Wuhan lab-leak investigation
Jun 07, 2021 23:43 pm UTC| Politics Law
The theory that SARS-CoV-2 originally leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China, is making a comeback so much so that President Joe Biden has publicly ordered the US intelligence community to redouble its investigations...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects