A look at China’s infrastructure projects in Africa, the companies involved, and who stands to gain.
"Build it, and they will come" is China’s dictum for infrastructure construction at home, but has it been able to do the same in Africa? A new report by the National Bureau of Asian Research looks at just how well China’s huge investments in that continent are turning out.
The basic numbers are impressive: Over the last 20 years, a small handful of Chinese financiers and state-owned enterprises have financed one in five new infrastructure projects across Africa, and built a third of them.
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A weekly curated reading list on China from David Barboza, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Shanghai correspondent for The New York Times.
A daily roundup of China finance, business and economics headlines.
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Washington’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for miners in the U.S. as well as mineral rich trading partners. But almost two years later, the North American mining industry is in crisis and no closer to chipping away at China's dominance. What went wrong?
The academic explains why we need to look beyond the actions of the Chinese government to understand how and why China is shaping countries in the region.
A podcast about how the two nations, once friends, are now foes.
Hear why things are so complicated now. Host Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief, talks with diplomats, spies, cultural superstars like Yo Yo Ma, and more to understand why the dangers are so high, and why relations went awry.