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When independent filmmaker Carl Houston Mc Millan was growing up in the tiny southern African country of Lesotho, he saw firsthand the effects of China’s surging engagement in Africa.

The day before the Dalai Lama’s November 18 trip to Mongolia, Beijing issued a “strong demand” to its neighbor to cancel the visit of the “anti-Chinese separatist” or face (unstated) consequences. The Dalai Lama would be making his ninth visit to the sparsely populated nation of 3 million people, just to China’s north. Previous visits triggered retaliation from China,

Stephane de Montgros first came to China as an engineering graduate, and today is the Director of an

In May, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave opening remarks to a two-day international forum designed to demystify and attract support for Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative.” This estimated $1 trillion investment campaign aims to create extensive new infrastructure and intergovernmental partnerships to deepen global trade in Chinese goods and services and provide China with

China said on Thursday it would appoint a special envoy to foster peace in the turbulent Horn of Africa and wanted to shift focus on the continent to trade over infrastructure.

Horn of Africa nations should decide their own destiny and convene a peace conference, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Duncan Miriri

China will also shift its focus in Africa from infrastructure to trade - Click the link for more details.

China is to appoint a special envoy to foster peace in the turbulent Horn of Africa and wants to shift focus on the continent to trade over infrastructure.

China is to appoint a special envoy to foster peace in the turbulent Horn of Africa and wants to shift focus on the continent to trade over infrastructure.