The #FOCAC2024 summit will include four high-level meetings on 1) state governance, 2) high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, 3) peace and security, 4) industrialization and agricultural modernization, along with other activities. news.cgtn.com/news/2024-09-0…

What a busy week for the presidents of Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia. First in Bali for the Indonesia-Africa Forum (yet another country+continent formula) and then #Beijing for #FOCAC2024?

So #FOCAC 9 has even MarketWatch talking #AfricaChina :) Bets are placed? marketwatch.com/press-release/…

My piece on #China and the #GlobalSouth with @int_politik is live. Could not be better timed for #FOCAC2024 #FOCAC week! Reich der Mittler: China und der Globale Süden | Internationale Politik internationalepolitik.de/de/reich-der-m…. Thankful to Joachim Staron for supervising the translation!

Here are the numbers of #FOCAC2024 that you need to know. It's not all about the big (close to) $51 billion USD but it's also about the trainings. The Beijing declaration promises "all-weather #China-#Africa community with a shared future for the new era" #ShapingtheFutureofPower

Remarkable numbers that show the challenge Europe faces in staying relevant in Africa. Global Gateway, in its current form, just won't cut the mustard.

China offering more and more training to African security sectors where demand for training is huge.

#FOCAC2024 main figures compiled by Lina Benabdallah

#EU will have to do a paradigm shift in how it works with #Africa and other developing countries. It is not about the money even. It is about understanding and respecting agency, including industrialisation. #GlobalGateway can not fix it. Radically different approach needed.

Yesterday, September 5, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote to open the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing. Piggybacking off this, we would like to bring your attention to the second publication in our Green and Transition

Another good #FOCAC2024 timing, my policy brief for APRI - Africa Policy Research Institute's Green and Transition Minerals Series is now live. "#China's Role in #Africa's Critical Minerals Landscape: Challenges and Key Opportunities" Read this and others in the series here afripoli.org/projects/green…

Anyone interested in #AfricaChina #CriticalMinerals, take note

“We are likely to see a continued prudence in terms of financing mega projects,” says CSIS Senior Associate Lina Benabdallah Lina Benabdallah on Beijing’s attitude during #FOCAC2024 to Business Standard Business Standard Read more: business-standard.com/world-news/chi…

Africa’s role in the global energy transition is a crucial one. In a new policy brief, CSIS Senior Associate Lina Benabdallah Lina Benabdallah analyzes challenges and opportunities facing the continent’s partnership with China on this critical front. Read: bit.ly/3MEGgzN