The China in Africa Podcast
By Eric Olander & Cobus van Staden
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Podcast Description
A lively discussion on China's engagement across Africa hosted by veteran journalists Eric Olander in Paris and Cobus van Staden in Cape Town.
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Reaction to BBC Africa Debate Special on China-Africa | BBC Africa Debate produced an impressive full-hour special on Friday, May 25th from Lusaka on the Chinese in Africa. On this edition of the podcast, we respond and react to the key issues raised in the program. | 5/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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African states compete for Chinese tourists | South Africa & Cameroon are aggressively courting some of the 77 million Chinese tourists | Chinese manufacturers battle against a reputation of producing low-quality goods | The China Daily launches a new Africa edition. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Challenging the myth of Chinese control in Africa | This week on the podcast: a rebuke to a recent NY Time's opinion piece from the Committee to Protect Journalists that links Chinese investment tin Africa to increased media suppression on the content | It's a widely-held perception that Chinese SOEs op... | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's strategic interests in Sudan | Special guest Zhang Zhongwen joins us from the University of Edinburgh to discuss: China's new diplomatic challenges mediating the conflict in Sudan | the surge in African FDI | the misconceptions surrounding China's engagement in Zambia. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's dollar diplomacy in South Sudan | The Chinese extend a massive 8 billion dollar loan to South Sudan but will that help resolve the RSS' burgeoning conflict with Sudan? | Ghana is now hitching its financial future to China as Accra accepts more and more of Beijing's cash | The debate of... | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ghana: the new Chinese tributary state? | Ghana goes forward with a $1 billion loan and considers another $6 billion loan | The Sudan conflict deepens, drawing China in ever deeper | A new research report on Chinese traders across southern Africa. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Uproar: South Africa's Olympic team outfits to be made in China | The 2012 & 2016 South African Olympic squads will be equipped with uniforms made by Chinese athletic wear company Erke | China-Malawi ties | the prospects for enhanced Sino-African eLearning programs | A Zimbabwe newspaper speculates that Chinese offic... | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's new man in Africa: Zhong Jinahua | Caixin Media does a revealing interview with China's new top diplomat in Africa | Guinea's iron ore reserves attract the attention of some of China's biggest state owned enterprises | China plans to invest a billion dollars in Portuguese-speaking state... | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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If China gets a cold does Africa get pneumonia? | South Africa's increasing dependency on China spooks investors, prompting a sell-off of the rand | China's massive infrastructure projects prompts new concerns that the quality and maintenance of the new roads, bridges and stadiums are not worth it | B... | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China-Zambia ties on the up and up | China's ties appear to be improving with Zambia when many had thought that the new president Michael Sata would have the opposite effect | Tanzania is now the MOST important country for China in East Africa. Surprised? | A breakdown of the landmark Sic... | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From 'Made in China' to 'Made in Ethiopia' | One of the China's largest leather shoe manufacturer's plans a huge $2 billion investment in Ethiopia | A growing number of African governments add the Chinese currency, the Yuan, to their foreign reserve portfolio | 32 Chinese killed in South Africa i... | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China rolls into South Africa with massive new auto investment | China's First Automobile Works announced a $100 million investment plan to build light trucks and passenger cars in South Africa's Coega industrial development zone in the Eastern Cape. This week on the China in Africa Podcast, Eric & Cobus explore the... | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's Sudanese quagmire | China's once groundbreaking investment in Sudan's nascent oil sector may now be coming back to haunt Beijing as warring parties in North and South Sudan draw the Chinese deeper into their civil conflict. In the wake of dozens of Chinese nationals kidna... | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China in Africa Podcast: Beijing grapples with hostage politics | Two hostage crises in the same week for the Chinese in Africa may be a new record. It may also portend a dramatic new challenge confronting policy makers in Beijing as they now grapple with the new reality that their citizens make for easy prey in some... | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China in Africa Podcast: Beijing's stadium diplomacy across Africa | Tens of thousands of Africa Cup of Nations football fans are cheering on their favorite clubs in Libreville in Gabon's newest stadium built with the generosity of the Chinese government. This week on the podcast, we explore whether this so-called 'stad... | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's big media push in Africa | China is embarking on an aggressive media campaign in Africa with the launch of CCTV's new broadcast operation in Nairobi, Kenya. The network says it hopes to join BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera among the major players in the international news business. Both... | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China in Africa Podcast: China's not interfering, it's mediating | China's top diplomat for Africa, Liu Guijin, intervenes to try and resolve the brewing dispute between South Sudan and Sudan. China's role as mediator is really a first and raises the question as to whether or not this represents Beijing's enhanced glo... | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China in Africa Podcast: China's old friend in Africa edition | Episode 2 of the China in Africa podcast: we begin in Ethiopia where the Chinese recently closed a 100 million dollars water supply loan while. Cobus and Eric discuss how this type of project differs from the engagement offered by the United States in ... | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
