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Lina Benabdallah

29 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read

Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021 inviting more initiatives to share experience on poverty reduction, digital infrastructure, youth exchanges, capacity building, clean energy investments,#FOCAC #Dakar #SinoAfrica

Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021 #China will provide 1 billion doses (600 million free doses, 400 million joint-production), 10 medical projects, send 1000 medical personnel #Dakar #SinoAfrica

Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021: $10 billion in credit loans, establish the Belt and Road base (?), assist 10 connectivity projects, encourage Chinese private companies to invest in #Africa, investment-driven projects in the next 10 years. $10 billion to support African SMEs.

Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021: Workshops and trainings for youth, more Luban workshops announced, express bus🚌 (for African students in #China). Tourism campaign, film festivals, and other cultural exchange projects.

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Lina Benabdallah

@LBenabdallah

1 Dec

https://twitter.com/lbenabdallah/status/1465749632240300032

Here’s a table of content of the Dakar #FOCAC #ActionPlan (fr edition). Quick thread on the main announcements (yes it’s 3 am and I am totally jet lagged just from being on FOCAC time zone to follow virtually). Lots of exchange programs, trainings, visits on the menu 1/

https://twitter.com/lbenabdallah/status/1465749632240300032

In terms of Peace and Security, #China will offer trainings on maritime security, military medicine, continue training of peacekeeping personnel, will hold another Peace and Security Forum, and will have exchanges on counterterrorism, rule of law, and other similar issues. 3/

In terms of #media, culture, tourism cooperation, similar to previous action plans. Big focus on R&D, think tank exchanges, scholarships, talent programs. Tho this action plan does not specify the numbers of trainings and scholarships - obviously (pandemic travel disruptions) 3/

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Lina Benabdallah

@LBenabdallah

23 Aug 19

The #China/ #SinoAfrica containment narrative is not useful for analyzing #Japan-#Africa development relations. Using a tug-of-war language to paint a🇨🇳-🇯🇵 standoff shows how much the🇺🇸- 🇨🇳rivalry colors #Africa's partnerships. 🇯🇵's #TICAD7 is a very different product from #FOCAC

#TICAD started in 1993, many moons before #FOCAC. #Japan did get inspired by #China's forum model and changed from meeting every 5 years to now every 3. TICAD also recently started alternating between #Japan and an #Africa|n hosts (like FOCAC) but

Using a zero-sum narrative doesn't work simply because there's a lot of room for #TICAD, #FOCAC, #India, #Russia.. What it shows tho is that the Forum Model is a favored #diplomacy w/ #Africa platform. Hosting public officials, organizing banquets, seminars, building connections

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Lina Benabdallah

@LBenabdallah

7 Apr 19

Can't believe my eyes seeing de Tocqueville quoted re: prospects of democratic transition in #Algeria. The guy literally wrote memos in support of French brutal torture system in #Algeria. It's already a violence that he became the democracy theorist in the US but this is a farce

On #epistemic violences and theorizing from the #GlobalSouth, think about how Alexis de Tocqueville, before becoming the father figure of democracy in the U.S. was a war-strategist for colonial #France in #Algeria. I'll throw in a few bonus quotes from his "Essay on #Algeria":

#Tocqueville wrote in 1841 "The most effective means we can use to subjugate the tribes is the interdiction of commerce” - speaking here about #Algerians around the Ottoman Empire's fall and the invasion of #France.

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