Tag Archives: China

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The emergence of Omicron has somehow vindicated what China has been doing to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, a Bloomberg report said recently. In an article published on Wednesday, Bloomberg said as countries across the world scrambled this week to impose border and travel curbs …

However, the trade volumes between the two countries are in favour of the Asian nation Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | China plans to deepen its influence in Uganda with the implementation of the China-Africa Digital Innovation initiative alongside other pledges in investment, trade and access to coronavirus vaccines. Chinese …

  Beijing, China | Xinhua | A Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) meeting to be held at the end of November is expected to produce plans for friendly China-Africa cooperation in the next phase, said a white paper released Friday. The white paper, titled “China and Africa in the New …

COMMENT | Ronald Kato | The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) ministerial meeting which starts next week in Dakar, Senegal comes at a critical time for both China and Africa. The pandemic has left countries reeling, economies faltering and communities troubled. It has reset global politics, widened the gap between the …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The Sino-Africa architecture of development, featured by FOCAC and BRI helps lead to prosperity in the African continent, a Kenyan expert said on Sunday. Peter Kagwanja, CEO of Africa Policy Institute said in a commentary published in the Sunday Nation, a Kenya-based newspaper that the …

The Central Committee calls upon the entire Party, the military, and all Chinese people to rally more closely around the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core Beijing, China | Xinhua | A high-profile meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has adopted a landmark resolution on …

Kampala, Uganda |  Xinhua | China’s Hunan Association Uganda has offered scholarships to students at Uganda’s Makerere University. Hunan Association Uganda signed a memorandum of understanding with the university on Friday. Barnabas Nawangwe, vice chancellor of the university, said the scholarships aim to help students with difficulty in paying their …

New York, US | Xinhua |  The old Cold War is the wrong way to frame what is happening now between China and the United States, and both sides should cooperate on climate and other issues, said an article published on The New York Times. “Governments that plunge into a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received an additional 700,000 doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines. This is the second batch of vaccine doses donated by the Chinese government. The first batch of 300,000 doses arrived in the country in July 2021. The Chinese ambassador to Uganda, Zhang Lizhong handed …

Ugandan government has in the past years faced harsh criticism over regular borrowings from China Import Export Bank to facilitate development of infrastructure projects including hydropower dams, roads and possibly soon the planned Standard Gauge Railway. But the Chinese loans have also had a fair share of positive aspects to …