Africa-first diplomacy remains central to Beijing’s worldview, but it is now accompanied by sharper risk assessment, a ...

China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, focusing on strategic trade access across eastern ...

For two decades, China’s strategy in Africa was straightforward: shower the continent with opaque and corrupt loans to build roads, ports, and power plants, securing influence and natural resources ...

The annual visit to 4-5 African countries has become traditional – but each year it’s still accompanied by concrete ...

The United States can compete more effectively with Chinese investment in Africa if it sheds its security-focused, all-or-nothing mindset. Geoeconomic policies—defined as the use of economic tools to ...

It's Rosaleen in for Joyce. China has long dominated Africa’s infrastructure, energy and trade sectors. Now, the United Arab Emirates is emerging as a strategic rival despite robust ties between the ...

At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign ...

In the current trade conflict between the US and China, the most misunderstood player isn’t China or the US — it’s Africa. And that’s no coincidence. Too often, the continent is treated as a pawn in ...