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Sep 30, 2024 | 
odi.org | Rebecca Nadin |Elvira Mami |Linda Calabrese |Yue Cao
Since its inception in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has aimed to address a range of strategic objectives, from strengthening regional cooperation to expanding trade and investment opportunities. The initiative also seeks to address overcapacity, promote supply-side reforms, and enhance China's influence in developing countries. As the BRI marks over a decade of implementation, a key question remains: what has it delivered for the developing countries that joined the initiative?
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
odi.org | Linda Calabrese
Welcome to the September 2024 edition of our China and Global Development round-up. This month, I have curated a selection of resources that delve into the evolving dynamics of Africa-China relations in the wake of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), insights into China’s overcapacity challenges and China’s role in the critical minerals sector.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
odi.org | Linda Calabrese |Yunnan Chen
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit, held on 4-6 September, is arguably the most followed ‘Africa + 1’ summit and a cornerstone of China’s Global South diplomacy for over two decades. This year, over 50 African heads of state travelled to Beijing for the event, marking the largest delegation ever for a FOCAC forum.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
telepolis.de | Linda Calabrese
China intensiviert sein Engagement in Afrika. Xi verspricht Milliarden für Kredite und Investitionen. Welche Strategie verfolgt Beijing auf dem Kontinent? Die Beziehungen zwischen China und Afrika werden sich vertiefen.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
heise.de | Linda Calabrese
China intensiviert sein Engagement in Afrika. Xi verspricht Milliarden für Kredite und Investitionen. Welche Strategie verfolgt Beijing auf dem Kontinent? Die Beziehungen zwischen China und Afrika werden sich vertiefen.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Linda Calabrese
By Linda Calabrese, Senior Research Fellow in the International Economic Development Group, ODI
China’s relationship with Africa is set to deepen. At a summit in Beijing in early September, China’s president, Xi Jinping, pledged to deliver US$51 billion (£39 billion) in loans, investment and aid to the continent over the next three years, as well as upgrading diplomatic ties. Beijing’s close engagement with Africa is not new.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Linda Calabrese
China’s relationship with Africa is set to deepen. At a summit in Beijing in early September, China’s president, Xi Jinping, pledged to deliver US$51 billion (£39 billion) in loans, investment and aid to the continent over the next three years, as well as upgrading diplomatic ties. Beijing’s close engagement with Africa is not new. Since 1950, the first overseas trip of the year for Chinese foreign ministers has almost always been to one or more African countries.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
odi.org | Linda Calabrese
Africa’s continental trade pact offers significant opportunities not only for African economies but also for their foreign trade partners – none more so than the largest, China. While China is perhaps best known in Africa for funding infrastructure megaprojects, its spending on infrastructure has decreased in recent years, even as it maintains its foreign direct investment (FDI). To take full advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), both elements will be necessary.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
odi.org | Linda Calabrese
China’s pledge at FOCAC to promote non-resource imports from Africa offers a unique opportunity for the continent to align its trade strategy under AfCFTA to support intra-African trade. China’s foreign ministry has pledged to “promote non-resource product imports from Africa” and move “towards balanced trade relations”.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Linda Calabrese
China’s foreign ministry has pledged to “promote non-resource product imports from Africa” and move “towards balanced trade relations”. The AfCFTA, meanwhile, is bringing down trade barriers between African countries and setting the conditions, assuming diplomatic goodwill and appropriate investment, for the creation of sophisticated value chains within the continent.
