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Flooding in Beijing, August 2023. Tingshu Wang / Reuters.

After the U.S. climate envoy John Kerry traveled to Beijing last month for three days of talks with Chinese leaders, he expressed cautious optimism. The trip yielded no new agreements, but the mere fact that it took place, Kerry argued, was a step forward. His verdict underscored just how much the space for cooperation between the United States and China has shrunk, even on a matter as urgent as climate change.

Recent times have not been kind to those hoping for more U.S.-Chinese climate action. As heat, floods, drought, and rising sea levels wallop the globe, the leaders of the world’s two largest economies are barely talking to each other.…  Seguir leyendo »

China President Xi Jinping is pictured on a big screen during an evening news program, showing his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at a mall in Beijing on Nov. 30. (Noel Celis /AFP)

Senegal hosted the latest Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) last week, a conference aimed at reinforcing economic ties between African countries and China. Foreign direct investment from Chinese firms continues to outstrip Chinese aid to the continent — and has surged past investment from U.S. firms.

While some analysts view China’s pledged investment amount as down from previous forums, the Chinese delegation presented a vision of more extensive investments in local communities in Africa. This is no doubt reassuring to African leaders, who regularly pitch for Chinese foreign investment and tout their successes to their constituents.

Conventional wisdom suggests that African leaders gain politically when Chinese firms invest in their countries.…  Seguir leyendo »

Recientemente, se celebró en Dakar, Senegal, el octavo Foro Trienal de Cooperación entre China y África (FOCAC). En versiones pasadas, China había anunciado grandes paquetes de financiación para el desarrollo, pero este año el Presidente chino Xi Jinping lo abrió prometiendo otros mil millones de dosis de vacunas contra el COVID-19 y más inversión de capital en el sector privado para África. Esta es apenas una señal de lo mucho que ha cambiado el panorama del desarrollo con la pandemia.

La crisis de la COVID-19 ha obligado a las autoridades y profesionales del desarrollo de todo el mundo a reagrupar y reevaluar sus enfoques.…  Seguir leyendo »

A health worker holds a box containing a dose of China's Sinopharm vaccine during the start of the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus at the Health Ministry in Dakar, Senegal. (Leo Correa/AP)

Sierra Leone television channels broadcast live footage of China’s Sinopharm vaccine doses landing in Freetown’s Lungi Airport on Feb. 26, adding to an expanding list of African countries receiving vaccine doses from China. Just a day earlier, Senegal President Macky Sall took his Sinopharm jab live on television, then tweeted an appeal for all Senegalese to get vaccinated. In Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed China for its donation of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses, describing them as “a light at the end of a dark tunnel.”

These are but a few examples of the media buzz about China’s “vaccine diplomacy” in Africa.…  Seguir leyendo »

China Takes the Lead in Development Finance-3

Según nuevas estimaciones, hoy China aporta casi tanto como el Banco Mundial a la financiación internacional del desarrollo. Ahora que países de todo el mundo tienen dificultades para combatir la COVID‑19, proteger a los vulnerables y orquestar una recuperación verde e inclusiva, este importante aumento de la financiación global del desarrollo puede ser muy beneficioso para la economía mundial.

Pero como cualquier gran ingreso de capitales en los países en desarrollo, la asistencia financiera de China también supone grandes riesgos, sobre todo en materia de dificultades para la devolución, pérdida de biodiversidad y cambio climático.

Un nuevo conjunto de datos interactivo del Centro de Políticas de Desarrollo Global de la Universidad de Boston hace un seguimiento de los préstamos soberanos de los dos bancos institucionales chinos de ayuda al desarrollo, el Banco Chino de Desarrollo y el Banco Chino de Exportación e Importación.…  Seguir leyendo »

A worker, wearing a protective suit amid concerns about covid-19, collects information from a driver at the entrance of a commercial complex in Beijing on Wednesday. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)

Since my column last week revealing safety concerns regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), some Western scientists have come to the defense of the lab and its scientists. Their perspectives are important, but many of them seem to overlook a crucial point: that all scientific research in China must ultimately subordinate itself to the dictates of the Chinese Communist Party.

This shouldn’t be a controversial assertion. This has been the case for decades, and the message has been amply reinforced by the party’s efforts to cover up the covid-19 outbreak. The Chinese government has systematically thwarted scientific investigation that would either implicate or exonerate the lab — or shed light on alternative theories.…  Seguir leyendo »

China and Ethiopia railway

El mes pasado, la Fundación Bill & Melinda Gates dio a conocer un informe de situación que rastrea el progreso de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sustentable de las Naciones Unidas (ODS). Los datos, que estaban destinados a destacar los esfuerzos para erradicar la pobreza extrema y reducir las muertes prematuras, también estaban destinados a engañar. Los países pueden y deben hacer más para abordar los desafíos para el desarrollo global que enfrenta el planeta en su conjunto, concluyó el informe.

El informe de la Fundación Gates no señala ningún país en particular por su potencial para restablecer el "compromiso del mundo con el desarrollo".…  Seguir leyendo »

Pakistan is awash with a tidal wave of Chinese infrastructure projects.

The small town of Gwadar, for example, was a forgotten end of the earth, filled with dust-colored cinder-block houses that lined trash-strewn streets and ringed by cliffs, desert and the Arabian Sea. Yet this sleepy fishing town has erupted with development over the past few years. A Chinese delegation inaugurated its sparkling new container port in early April, as part of a deal by which China will build and have rights over the port.

China has agreed to spend an extraordinary $46 billion in investment throughout Pakistan, far more than the annual U.S.…  Seguir leyendo »