Cobus van Staden
Managing Editor at The China Global South Project
Senior China-Africa Researcher at South African Institute of International Affairs
Co-host of the China in Africa podcast. Senior China-Africa researcher at South African Institute of International Affairs.
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1 week ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Cobus van Staden
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on Monday, the first visit in his tour of Southeast Asia. He was met by the country’s President Lu’o’ng Cu’ò’ng. Xi will also make stops in Malaysia and Cambodia. Trade will likely be the dominant theme of the tour, as U.S. tariffs threaten the dense regional supply chains China has built up with its neighbors. “Trade wars and tariff wars yield no winners, and protectionism offers no solutions,” Xi said.
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1 month ago |
sinicapodcast.com | Cobus van Staden |Eric Olander
By Cobus van StadenAmid the upheavals of Donald Trump’s first weeks back as U.S. president, a key point of overlap between his shredding of the Atlantic partnership and his ending of U.S. foreign assistance to the developing world has been largely ignored: the impact of these choices’ impact on U.S. information-gathering. Both American aid and its defense assistance to old allies like Europe tend to be framed in MAGAville as something the United States simply gives away.
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2 months ago |
sinicapodcast.com | Cobus van Staden |Eric Olander
By Cobus van StadenThe Trump administration’s decision to halt and review U.S. foreign assistance to developing countries instantaneously turned the United States from many countries’ biggest helper into their biggest problem. In the process, he kicked off a massive experiment.
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2 months ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Cobus van Staden
The Trump administration’s decision to halt and review U.S. foreign assistance to developing countries instantaneously turned the United States from many countries’ biggest helper into their biggest problem. In the process, he kicked off a massive experiment. The research question is something like “What constitutes U.S. international influence?” In other words, does the United States’s leadership especially in the developing world depend on hard power, be it sanctions, tariffs, or military might?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
theafricareport.com | Cobus van Staden
An opinion survey of developed and developing countries by the European Council on Foreign Relations showed that pessimism about the impact of Trump on world peace and the respondents’ own countries was the highest among US allies in Europe and Northeast Asia. In contrast, responses from prominent developing countries like Türkiye and Indonesia were much sunnier. Part of this mood seems to be the assumption among Global South elites that Trump could be open to doing business.
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