Exporting China's Development to the World: CFP “The Art of Neighbouring: Old...
I am pleased to announce an open call for individual research papers to participate in a 2-day thematic workshop under the title “The Art of Neighbouring: Old Crossroads and New Connections along the...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: New book on China-India battle...
Our student Eric Schuit has alerted me to a new book, Where China Meets India, by Thant Myint-U, the U.S.-bred grandson of former UN secretary-general U Thant. From a review in The Guardian, the main...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Lu Junqing, the new Liu Jianjun?
第一财经日报 (First Financial Daily, part of the Southern Media Group) published an article (言木, 中非希望工程背后的卢俊卿父女发迹史, 18 August 2011) on Lu Junqing 卢俊卿 and his daughter Lu Xingyu 卢星宇, the twenty-something...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Southern Grid pulls out of...
In an — I think — unprecedented move, China Southern Grid’s spokesman, Rambo Niu, announced the company was pulling out of its planned power projects in Cambodia, South China Morning Post reported...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Debate on Chinese philanthropy...
The Project Hope Africa affair seems to have reignited the debate on Chinese philanthropy abroad. Economic Observer Online, a Peking-based bilingual publication whose English website describes it as...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese investment in Africa and...
An article by Peter Apps in today’s International Herald Tribune (“Chinese Cash Welcome — To a Point) uses the example of Huang Nudo’s purchase of a 300-ha farm in Iceland to illustrate a European...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Lake Victoria East Africa Free...
The Lake Victoria East Africa Free Trade Zone, also known as the Ssesamirembe Eco-City, has for a while looked like one of the largest Chinese concessions in Africa and one with the most intriguing...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: More private Chinese investment...
Local media in Wenzhou — reputed as China’s capital of private entrepreneurship — report of growing interest in private investment in African mining as the government has clamped down on small-scale...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Watching African sea turtles
With the rapidly growing number of Africans getting PhDs in China, it will be interesting to understand their motivations and impact if they return home. (In China, such highly skilled returnees are...
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