Stephen Marks

China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi completed his six-nation tour of Africa. On the trip he ‘strengthened coordination with governments of those African states on implementing the agreements reached at the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting’, he told Chinese reporters on his return.

CHINA IN THE WORLD

China's state-owned banks have become a main engine of the global recovery, financing the construction of copper mines, purchase of airplanes, expansion of retail stores and other projects even as their U.S. and European counterparts scale back lending.

COPENHAGEN

Key concessions from the United States and China jolted climate negotiations in Copenhagen, providing optimism a day before President Obama was due to join other world leaders seeking a new international agreement on controlling greenhouse gases.

COPENHAGEN

While top negotiators of the Africa Group at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen remain positive, there are indications that the continent is disagreeing on several key issues.

How should Chinese and African civil society respond to the challenge of FOCAC
2009? That was the question addressed by some 30 activists, researchers and
academics at Fahamu's two-day CSO FOCAC workshop in Nairobi on 26th and 27 November

Yoon Park has already written a fascinating study of South Africa’s local-born Chinese community ‘A matter of honour: Being Chinese in South Africa’.

China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. Beijing said it would aim to reduce its "carbon intensity" by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

Chinese investment is now flooding into Africa on such a scale that it has outstripped the ability of state-run banks to provide low-interest finance, according to a report from Reuters.

In the final week before the fourth ministerial FOCAC meeting in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on November 8 and 9, China has been intensifying its effort to put across the‘win-win’ view of its African engagement, with a barrage of new announcements, trailers of the new measures to be unveiled at the s

FOCAC PREPARATIONS