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1: Here's a new paper in our seven region @CarnegieEndow #ChinaLocalGlobal initiative. Yuan Wang from @DukeKunshan and @Hangwei_Li ex @SOASpolitics explore how differing media norms in Kenya and Ethiopia yielded differing PR strategies by Chinese firms. carnegieendowment.org/2023/02/27/afr…
2: The paper focuses on the corporate communication strategies of three Chinese state firms involved in two flagship rail projects in Africa: the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, constructed by CRBC, and the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway in Ethiopia, constructed by CCECC and CREC.
3: Drawing on fieldwork they argue that these Chinese state firms exhibited divergent paths. CRBC has learned and adapted, largely because of Kenya's vibrant media environment and watchdog journalism; CCECC and CREC didn't because Ethiopia lacks naming and shaming by local media.
1: A few folks asked me to elaborate on this. I'll try. And please note that I don't mean to pick on the Kahl speech per se, since his speech isn't really about China. But the way China is framed there is (1) endemic in US rhetoric but (2) spectacularly ineffective, in my view.
2: To be blunt, experience and intuition tell me that Washington is delusional if thinks this kind of stark, binary message on China is going to work in most regions of the world - inclusive of, but not limited to, the Middle East and North Africa.
3: Of course, one problem is that big powers are self evidently self-interested. So calling China “transactional and opportunistic” while presenting the US as purely “altruistic” will presumably be laughed out of the room in most global capitals.
1: A fantastic new study in our @CarnegieEndow #ChinaLocalGlobal initiative. @julianagj explores how national, provincial and corporate players in Argentina pushed Chinese investors to support the country's energy transition and help revitalize their grid. carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/22/how…
2: Her paper closely examines Chinese investment and loan activities in Argentina’s solar and wind power sectors. An adaptive partnership has evolved among key actors and institutions, strengthening alignment between Argentina's own development objectives and Chinese investments.
3: She also explores how Argentinian players can better assess and classify whether putative Chinese projects actually support Argentina’s economic growth and sustainable development needs, especially through technology transfers and/or joint development of energy technologies.
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@jensstoltenberg interview in @FT marks a shift in @NATO's approach to China-Russia axis. Waking up to the issue is welcome compared to years of ignorance. Yet conclusions based on flawed analysis that overstates 🇨🇳🇷🇺 rapport may lead to some grave mistakes 1/
@jensstoltenberg interview in @FT marks a shift in @NATO's approach to China-Russia axis. Waking up to the issue is welcome compared to years of ignorance. Yet conclusions based on flawed analysis that overstates 🇨🇳🇷🇺 rapport may lead to some grave mistakes 1/
2/ In his interview to @khalafroula & @HenryJFoy @jensstoltenberg outlines the profound challenge that 🇨🇳 presents to @NATO, and then suggests that the alliance should in fact treat China and Russia as parts of one problem. ft.com/content/0202ed…
3/ @jensstoltenberg to @FT exhibit 1: "This whole idea of in a way distinguishing so much between China, Russia, either Asia-Pacific or Europe, it’s one big security environment and we have to address it all together" ft.com/content/cf8c6d…
1: China-funded railway projects in the Brazilian Amazon met a thicket of local resistance. In the Ferrogrão, Chinese and Brazilian players adapted. This terrific new paper in our @CarnegieEndow #ChinaLocalGlobal project explores these adaptive dynamics: carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/04/wha…
2: The authors, @AAbdenur, @mafolly and @msantoro1978, show learning on both sides in the mitigation and management of socio-environmental risks around Chinese investments in Brazil's transportation infrastructure. They explore ongoing negotiations, plans, and controversies.
3: This paper is the latest in our seven-region #ChinaLocalGlobal initiative, which explores how China extends its influence by working through local actors and institutions while adapting and assimilating local and traditional forms, norms, and practices.
1: Thread: Many argue that China exports its developmental model and imposes it on other countries. But Chinese players also extend their influence by working through local actors and institutions while adapting and assimilating local and traditional forms, norms, and practices.
2: With the generous support of @FordFoundation @CarnegieEndow is developing an innovative body of research on Chinese engagement in seven regions of the world—Africa, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, the Pacific, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
3: The initiative, #ChinaLocalGlobal, involves a mix of textured country-specific and multi-country regional research, cross-regional comparative work, and (as COVID fades) some strategic convening. carnegieendowment.org/specialproject…
