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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Chinese Loans to Africa: The Economist Gets it Wrong

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On September 7th  The Economist published an article, " China's Relationship with Africa is Growing Murkier ," with a graph o...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

French Police Seize Nigerian Jet for Chinese Company: the CARI Connection

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SAIS students with Zhongfu in Nigeria A private Chinese company is behind the French seizure of Nigeria's presidential jet. What's t...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Chinese Lending to Sri Lanka: A Factual cum “Reality” Check

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Note: This guest blog post by Dr Muttukrishna Sarvananthan is a response to CARI briefing paper 08/2022:  EVOLUTION OF CHINESE LENDING TO SR...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Montenegro, China, and the Media: A Highway to Disinformation?

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"Perast - Montenegro"   by  MILACHICH  is licensed under  CC BY-ND 2.0 How do Chinese banks really lend in risky countries oversea...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

BBC Misrepresents my Views on "Debt Trap Diplomacy"

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The BBC misrepresented my views t his morning , and I admit I'm stunned. I'm a big fan of the BBC. Living in Taiwan and Hong Kong, i...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Zambia's Chinese Debt in the Pandemic Era

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Figure 1: Chinese loans, copper prices, and Zambian elections   In August 2021 a new president, Hakainde Hichilema, took office in Zambia, f...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

The Road to Who Knows Where: What one highway project in Cameroon can tell us about the complexities of Chinese lending in Africa

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This post is by former CARI Research Assistant Alex Hardin and CARI Director Deborah Brautigam. Alex Hardin is now an M&E Associate at W...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Evaluating the Impact of China-Financed Power Projects on Electricity Access

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This guest blogpost is by SAIS PhD student Keyi Tang  Photo credit: ZSM In the last decade, China has overtaken the World Bank and the Afric...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Don’t miss our CARI/Washington Post Monkey Cage collaboration series

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From February to April 2021, the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and the China Africa Research Initiative brought you a series exploring a var...