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BRICS Faces a Test as China and India Offer Starkly Different Responses to War
52+ min ago (99+ words) BRICS Faces a Test as China and India Offer Starkly Different Responses to War'The China-Global South Project In the space of 24 hours, between Sunday and Monday, the foreign ministers from both China and India laid out their respective governments" positions…...
Senegal Clears Chinese Firm’s Sanitary Pads After Probe Into Expired Materials
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (204+ words) Senegal's minister of health said on Thursday that menstrual pads made by a leading Chinese firm embroiled in a scandal over expired materials were safe for consumers, following an investigation. Products containing expired polyethylene film made by the company Softcare…...
Zimbabwe Says Fast-Tracked Ban Over Lithium Export Rush
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (180+ words) Zimbabwe Says Fast-Tracked Ban Over Lithium Export Rush'The China-Global South Project Zimbabwe fast-tracked the entry of a ban on raw lithium exports last week after mining companies engaged in an "unacceptable scramble" to export ahead of the planned entry into…...
Angola Turns to China for $4.8 Billion Refinery Loan
1+ week, 4+ day ago (159+ words) Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Global South Project, an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China's engagement in Africa. Eric is a fluent Mandarin-speaker and a longtime China-watcher with more than 25 years of…...
China Announces Date for African Tariff-Free Market Access
3+ week, 51+ min ago (86+ words) China Announces Date for African Tariff-Free Market Access'The China-Global South Project Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that goods from 53 African countries will have duty-free accessto the Chinese market from 1 May 2026. In a message sent to the African Union Summit in…...
Looking Beyond “Useful Africa” at the Mining Indaba
3+ week, 3+ day ago (214+ words) Trade: Seeing Beyond How Africa Is Seen'The China-Global South Project With U.S.-South Africa ties in the deep freeze, it was notable to see the sheer size of the U.S. delegation sent to this week's Mining Indaba in Cape Town " one of…...
The China Factor Missing From the Headlines at This Year’s African Mining Indaba
3+ week, 5+ day ago (241+ words) Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Global South Project, an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China's engagement in Africa. Eric is a fluent Mandarin-speaker and a longtime China-watcher with more than 25 years of…...
Oil-Rich Angola Makes First Major Copper Exports
3+ week, 6+ day ago (172+ words) Oil-Rich Angola Makes First Major Copper Exports'The China-Global South Project Angola's first major copper mine shipped its first concentrates in January, an official said on Tuesday, the first such exports of the clean energy metal as the oil-rich African country…...
China’s Electric Buses in Africa: Clean Transport or a New Dependency?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1848+ words) African cities are growing, increasing demand for transport, and, in the process, choking even faster from diesel-belching public transport vehicles, which remain the backbone of urban life. This episode goes beyond headlines to explore policy, financing, skills, minerals, grids, and…...
Mozambique’s President Opens Chinese-Owned Graphite Processing Plant
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (97+ words) Mozambique's President Opens Chinese-Owned Graphite Processing Plant'The China-Global South Project Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo opened a 200,000 metric ton per year graphite processing plant at a Chinese-owned mine on Friday, as the south-east African country boosts output of the battery mineral....