Eric Olander
Host and Managing Editor at China Africa Project
Editor in Chief of The China-Global South Project. Follow us for daily updates: @ChinaGSProject (EN), @AfrikChine (FR) & @SinSharqAwsat (AR)
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1 week ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Eric Olander
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Malaysia’s king Wednesday in a state visit analysts said was aimed at burnishing Beijing’s credentials as a reliable partner and “not a hegemon.”Xi embarked this week on a Southeast Asia tour that has already taken him to Vietnam and will also include Cambodia. Beijing is trying to position itself as a stable alternative to US President Donald Trump’s punitive tariff regime. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis.
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1 week ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Eric Olander
By Alice PHILIPSONChina’s President Xi Jinping paid tribute to Vietnam’s late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Tuesday, his last day of a trip to Hanoi that President Donald Trump said was aiming to “screw” the United States. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations.
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chinaglobalsouth.com | Eric Olander
A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users — the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine government’s preferred name for the disputed waterway better known as the South China Sea was previously viewable only if specifically sought by name, according to AFP journalists who kept screenshots of earlier searches. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis.
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1 week ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Eric Olander
Building “islands of stability” in Southeast Asia and other states that border China will now be Beijing’s top diplomatic priority to offset the turmoil triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, says a prominent Chinese international relations scholar.
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2 weeks ago |
chinaglobalsouth.com | Eric Olander
China’s Commerce Minister, Wang Wentao, met with his Malaysian counterpart Tengku Zafrul on Wednesday to discuss the tariff threat posed by the United States and how the two Asian countries can forge closer commercial ties. The two ministers also discussed President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit next week to three Southeast Asian countries, including Malaysia, which currently holds the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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Maybe it's just me, but some of the language in the White House's new "Nairobi-Washington Vision" statement on debt relief sounds extremely patronizing. It sounds like "high ambition" means if 'you do what we ask you to do, then you'll get the money': https://t.co/0QNiuDuynz https://t.co/2zEXvrtg3y
RT @drelisagambino: 🎉Thank you @eric_olander and @stadenesque for a great discussion on labour relations in Sino-African construction sites…
So, the US ambassador to Singapore wears jeans, a t-shirt, and no tie to a meeting with the Prime Minister. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. What's worse is that he THINKS he looks cool. 😂 https://t.co/EezHJSFqxj
