Launched in 2022, the initiative hosts virtual dialogues with experts about the evolution of China’s engagement with the Global South.
The panel discussions explore the continuity and divergence in China’s exchanges with different regions in the Global South, including Latin and South America and Africa, as well as its development efforts as part of China’s expansive Belt and Road Initiative.
Over the past year, the members of the Africa-China Research Group on Digital Infrastructure completed their research around Chinese interactions with different aspects of African digital development…
China is now an important peace and security actor on the African continent. It is the largest contributor of UN Peacekeeping troops among the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council and has…
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism (2024), Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fieldwork in one of the “China malls” that has…
As the impact of the new Trump administration’s Executive Orders comes into focus, the Georgetown University Africa-China Initiative gathered experts for a webinar to consider the respective roles of…
When can economic inducements—like foreign aid, large-scale investment initiatives, and discounted sales of natural resources—buy influence abroad? Zenobia Chan argues that inducements can be…
The announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative splashed China onto the world’s overseas lending scene. In the more than a decade since, Beijing has become a major lender to the developing world…
