Category Archives: China and foreign relations

Africa’s Silk Road

Posted on 2006-11-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The World Bank’s ‘Private Sector Development Blog’ (catchy name that) has an entry about the China-Africa summit meeting at the beginning of the month: Beijing gussies up for South-South trade. The post contains links to a few relevant articles: NPR: … Continue reading →

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Hard Hat Show: African Billboards of Beijing – Chinese subtitles

Posted on 2006-11-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here is the Chinese subtitled version of African Billboards of Beijing, hosted on Tudou: You can also see this video in English on Danwei.TV. See Danwei’s China and Africa category for more about Sino-African trade and relations. Sexy Beijing is … Continue reading →

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Hard Hat Show: African Billboards of Beijing

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Sino-African Summit, attended by leaders and representatives of 48 African countries, concluded last weekend. The big meeting casued several days of tightened security, reduced traffic and frenetic diplomatic activity in Beijing. Plainclothes cops, military police and phalanxes of red-armband … Continue reading →

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African opinions about the Beijing summit

Posted on 2006-11-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Chinese government has communicated its commitments to Africa on the state-owned Xinhua news service — see this Danwei post or browse around Xinhua’s special minisite dedicated to it. Here are some African reports and reactions to the summit. Kenya’s … Continue reading →

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China’s African commitments

Posted on 2006-11-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Hu Jintao meets with African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare – Image from Xinhua Judging from the Xinhua headlines today, China is going to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to Africa. At the end … Continue reading →

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China to build and finance Guinea Bissau infrastructure

Posted on 2006-11-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the website Macau Hub: The Chinese government has pledged to build a military hospital and the ‘Palace of Justice’ in Guinea Bissau’s capital, during an official visit to China by Guinean President João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira , Guinean officials … Continue reading →

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Nigeria and China railway deal: $8.3 billion

Posted on 2006-11-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, China and Nigeria signed an 8.3 billion US dollar railway construction contract. China will build 1315 kilometers of railroad in the west African state; this is the biggest infrastucture project abroad for a Chinese … Continue reading →

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Yu Qiuyu on cross-cultural communication

Posted on 2006-10-28 by Joel Martinsen

A piece by Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) adapted from a presentation given at August’s 2006 Cross-Cultural Communication Forum.

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Leslie’s not dead — he’s become a mountain hermit

Posted on 2006-09-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Song Zude claims that Leslie Cheung didn’t commit suicide on 1 April. Wen Jiabao boasts about China’s free flow of information.

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Israeli attack on UN Observers and a role reversal in Chinese media

Posted on 2006-08-02 by Will

Bringing the UN observer home – image from Xinhua Chinese media reaction to Israel’s recent attack on a UN observation post has been surprisingly tame. This is especially clear when comparing the coverage of the incident in the China Daily … Continue reading →

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