Tag Archives: China

  COMMENT | ANA PALACIO – PROJECT SYNDICATE |  Perhaps no image better captures the shifting dynamics in the Middle East than that of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s security council, and Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, shaking hands in Beijing, with China’s top diplomat, …

St Petersburg, Russia | Xinhua | China’s success in the aerospace industry is “of great importance to the development of world science and technology,” a Russian expert has said. “China’s achievements in space exploration are impressive: several crews were successively sent to space; planetary rovers were operating on Mars and …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The China Road and Bridge Corporation, CRBC, has signed a contract with the government to rehabilitate the Tororo to Gulu section of the meter gauge railway line. This comes days after the company completed the rehabilitation of the Malaba-Tororo stretch which is now operational. …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua |  China on Wednesday started running a two-day training seminar aimed at assisting Tanzania to increase its capacity in water conservation and management in the country’s Great Lakes. The training seminar on Eco-environment and Water Security in Lake Basin System was jointly organized by the …

Beijing, China |  Xinhua |  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has issued a notice calling on the whole Party to study the recently published first two volumes of a new book series of selected works of Xi Jinping. The first two volumes contain important works …

Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s national flag carrier, is celebrating the 50th year of the commencement of its service to China. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Ethiopia’s national flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, on Friday said it is celebrating the 50th year of the commencement of its service to China. The airline said …

There is less insight into China’s domestic problems and what those could mean for Xi’s regime Washington, US | NEWS ANALYSIS  | The U.S. intelligence community’s annual threat assessment for 2023 certainly cannot be faulted for having a narrow focus or Pollyanna perspective. From a rising China, Russian aggression, and Iran’s …

Chikankata, Zambia | Xinhua | Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema officially commissioned a Chinese-built hydropower plant, following the switching on of the plant’s fifth generator on Friday. The five generators at the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydropower Station, constructed by the Chinese firm Sinohydro Corporation Limited, added a total of 750 megawatts to the …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin on his arrival in Moscow on Monday. When Xi reached the Kremlin, he was greeted by the Kremlin Commandant at the alighting point. Putin warmly shook hands and took photos with …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Xue Bing, Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday refuted the groundless cliche that China is creating a “debt trap” in Africa, calling it a narrative trap instead. Addressing media here in the Ethiopian capital, the …