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• March 16, 2010
• 20:20

  Sarah Raine’s China’s African Challenges

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  One of the latest additions to the China-Africa literature is Sarah Raine’s China’s African Challenges, which was published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies last year. Although it breaks no new ground — it would be difficult to do ...
• March 14, 2010
• 12:36

  Ming Pao Weekly cover story “Chinese in Africa, Africans in China”

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  Ming Pao used to be known as one of the more independent (i.e. non-Peking-aligned) major Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong. Perhaps I have missed something, or maybe it’s just Ming Pao Weekly that is no longer blocked in the mainland, but ...
• March 10, 2010
• 22:19

  Debate on Chinese investment package in Guinea

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  On ”China in Africa: The Real Story,” Deborah Brautigam takes issue with a new Chatham House report entitled “Guinea: Bought by Beijing.” The report says that to the surprise of many, after taking control in a coup and then violently suppressing civil ...
• March 09, 2010
• 15:26

  Another China-Africa conference

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  China, Afrika en de Europese Unie: een gespannen relatie? (China, Africa and the EU: a tense relationship?) is being organised by  IOB at the University of Antwerp and the Euro-China Centre of its management school on 21-22 April....
• March 01, 2010
• 21:59

  New York Times on Chinese investment in Afghanistan

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  In The New York Times, Michael Wines writes about China Metallurgical Group Corporation’s $3.4 billion investment in the Aymak copper mine in Afghanistan. While S. Frederick Starr, the chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, accuses China of free-riding on security ...
• February 20, 2010
• 18:52

  Baoding Villages — again!

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  Just when I was about to be convinced that the Baoding Villages were, after all, a hoax, The Independent revived the story, written up by Clifford Coonan (“China’s new export: farmers,” 19 February 2010). If Coonan’s interview with Liu Jianjun is ...
• 18:19

  Economist debate on pros and cons of Chinese involvement

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  From 15 to 19 February, The Economist hosted a debate on Africa and China with the opening statement “This house believes that China’s growing involvement in Africa is to be welcomed.” Both the “defense” and the “opposition” was represented by African professors teaching at ...
• February 16, 2010
• 19:45

  CfP: Africa for Sale

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  A call for papers has been announced for  Africa for Sale: Analysing and Theorizing Foreign Land Claims and Acquisitions, a conference to be held at Groningen University, the Netherlands, on 28-29 October 2010.  While the nature and scope of large-scale, foreign ...
• February 04, 2010
• 10:23

  EU and China in Africa: Conference at the College of Europe

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  The “InBev-Baillet Latour Chair of EU-China Relations” at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium (an EU policy outfit) held a conference on 4-5 February entitled “The EU and China: Partners or Competitors in Africa?” Some participants were the usual suspects, ...
• January 26, 2010
• 15:37

  Review of African Ngos and Sino-African Relations book

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  As Chinese news agencies reported earlier this year, The African NGOs and Sino-African Relations 非洲非政府组织与中非关系, edited by Liu Hongwu 刘鸿武 and Shen Beili 沈蓓莉 (Peking: Shijie Zhishi Chubanshe 世界知识出版社, 2009) was launched at a Sino-African conference. The authors  of the ...
• January 14, 2010
• 15:24

  Pure Swahili culture, World Heritage and a Chinese port

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  An 11 January article by Jeffrey Gettleman in The New York Times (“Future Kenya Port Could Mar Pristine Land”) is such a textbook case of China-in-Africa discourse that it merits its own entry. All the ingredients are there: heritage, nature and ...
• January 03, 2010
• 14:30

  Baoding Villages 3

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  I received an email from Li Guangyi at UCLA with an update on the Baoding Villages. The email was sent in June last year but I only read it now. Since it was intended as a post, I am posting ...
• December 12, 2009
• 19:58

  Qin Hui’s talk in Kunming on Chinese investments in Southeast Asian power

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  The prominent social thinker/economic historian Qin Hui from Tsinghua University — described by his friend David Kelly as a social democrat — has recently written a number of articles on Chinese mines and infrastructure investments abroad, particularly in the Mekong ...
• December 09, 2009
• 17:48

  Conference: Africa-Asia: Networks, Exchanges, Transversalities

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  Just back from the BICC conference on “China’s rise” and the AAA annual meeting — both of which had China/Africa panels/papers, and here is already the next conference announcement from the CNRS’ Centre d’Etudes  des Mondes Africains. “The colloquium deploys ...
• December 02, 2009
• 15:25

  Xinhua sees “great potential in Sino-Africa non-governmental cooperation”

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  According to a Xinhua report dated 14 October, which has only now been circulated on International Rivers’ mailing list, a “China-Africa NGO seminar” has been organised within the FOCAC framework, to which ”20 persons in charge of NGOs and ambassadors from eight ...
• November 24, 2009
• 22:53

  ESRC Rising Powers Network: China

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  Frauke Urban (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex), Giles Mohan (Open University) and Xue Lan (Tsinghua University) are launching a research network called China as the new ’shaper’ of global development. The network is funded by the Economic and ...
• October 13, 2009
• 10:36

  The Back to Jerusalem movement

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  For the Centenary of the World Mission Conference, to be held next year in Edinburgh, Kim-kwong Chan has written a paper on the Back to Jerusalem movement, a movement among China’s house churches to evangelise the area between China and ...
• October 07, 2009
• 17:42

  New report on Chinese bauxite mining in Indochina

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  The Heinrich Boell Foundation, WWF and the International Institute for Sustainable Development have released a new report by Kate Lazarus on China’s involvement in bauxite mining in Indochina. Mining companies are present in Laos but have not yet started operations; ...
• September 19, 2009
• 10:39

  International Crisis Group’s new report on China-Burma relations

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  Following the conquest of Kokang by Burmese government troops and the reported flight of tens of thousands of refugees to China (described as Chinese businessmen in Chinese media; see earlier entry), the International Crisis Group has published a new report ...
• September 17, 2009
• 12:52

  New China-in-Zambia masters theses in Amsterdam

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  Sarah Hardus and Roos Apotheker have recently completed masters theses respectively on perceptions of Chinese aid in Zambia and on practices corporate social responsibility in the new Zambian mining landscape. Hardus’ thesis will soon be available as a MqVU working ...
• September 04, 2009
• 19:32

  Yet another China in Africa book

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  Oh no… Amsterdam University Press has published yet another China in Africa book, The New Presence of China in Africa. The book is being launched at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague at 4 pm on 16 ...
• September 02, 2009
• 16:31

  Shan organisation reports fighting around dam site in Burma

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  According to 1 September press release by the Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation, disseminated on the International Rivers mailing list, Shan activists are calling on China to immediately halt all investment in dams on the Salween River following the recent heavy ...
• August 24, 2009
• 15:00

  Conference panel on “The Rising Powers and the ‘new’ geographies of international development”

   » ‎ Exporting China's Development to the World
  Giles Mohan and Marcus Power are organising a panel with this title at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC, on 14-18 April 2010. The call for papers lists the following possible themes: To what extent is ...
• August 23, 2009
• 11:08

  China Newsweek cover story on Africans in China

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  A month after the clash between Nigerians and the police in Canton (see my 17 July post), the cover story of the curent (17 August) China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊, no relation to Newsweek) is entitled “Does China need an immigration bureau?” ...
• 9:03

  Conference on the global politics of China

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  The British Inter-University China Centre is organising a conference on the global politics of China in London and Manchester on 27-29 November. The call for papers is here....
• August 06, 2009
• 16:36

  The latest on the Baoding Villages

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  Today at the International Convention of Asia Scholars in Daejeon there was a panel on “Exporting China’s Development.” Yan Hairong and Barry Sautman presented a paper on their fieldwork at the Chambishi copper mine in Zambia, which I had much ...
• 6:37

  “Buying mines in Africa” and the question of China’s “soft power”

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  About a year ago, an interesting post “Buying mines in Africa— so that you know how difficult it is for China to obtain overseas resources [非洲买矿记 (让你知道中国海外获取资源何其难！)]” was published on Tianya by a poster named “sheishi sheifei renpingshue 谁是谁非任评说”. This ...