#African nations being forced to hand over national assets to China
Some African nations are being forced to hand over national assets to #China due to certain agreements they signed with #Beijing years back
#Uganda has emerged as one of the most recent African examples of #Beijing's debt-trap policy.
The nation is preparing to hand over its only international airport to the Chinese companies because it was unable to repay the USD 207 million loan to the communist regime.
The nation is preparing to hand over its only international airport to the Chinese companies because it was unable to repay the USD 207 million loan to the communist regime.
The two countries had signed the agreement in November 2015. Uganda at the time of the deal had removed the international immunity clause from the agreement showing a gesture of goodwill.
But the removal of the clause has now become Uganda's major mistake, resulting in the handover of its only international airport in near future to China.
But Uganda is not the only African nation that is facing this issue. There are others too. Chinese companies and banks have now started to reduce their assistance in Africa.
Beijing at the recently held Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) stated that it was significantly reducing its assistance to Africa, from USD 60 billion to USD 40 billion.
China-based banks that were financing in Africa under the BRI have reduced assistance drastically from USD 11 billion in 2017 to USD 3.3 billion in 2020. Ethiopia also has similar stories as Uganda.
In 2019, the country had signed worth USD 2.6 billion projects with Chinese companies. The number of projects were 346.
With the projects, Ethiopia hoped the employment generation for the local population. But the expectation did not come into reality as Chinese labourers in Ethiopia in that year increased from 8,000 to 12,000.
The surge in Chinese resulted in a major blow employment generation for the local population. The initial promises which Chinese companies had made to the African countries most of them have been cut down in scope as companies revealed their real nature to the host countries.
In Africa, 50 out of 54 countries have taken loans from Chinese entities worth USD 153.4 billion from 2009 to 2019.
Now due to the COVID crisis, these countries are facing issues to repay the loans. In the near future, the possibilities of more defaults, repossessions by Chinese companies still persist.
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#China controls influencers through state, non-state actors
Beijing has started to use both state and non-state actors in an effort to influence the influencers through myriad methods.
China’s large apparatus of government organizers, state-controlled news media and other official amplifiers all part of the government’s widening attempts to spread pro-Beijing messages around the planet, according to New York Times.
Earlier, State-run news outlets and local governments have organized and funded pro-Beijing influencers’ travel, according to government documents and the creators themselves.
#Pakistan government ignorant over action on missing people, says report
Depicting ignorance of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan government over the missing people in Pakistan, a local media report stated that there have been too many examples in the country in which the voice of the kins of missing people have gone unheard even after decades.
The case under consideration relates to missing journalist Mudassar Naaru, according to Dawn.
The court also highlighted the inability or unwillingness of the Commission for Inquiry of Enforced Disappearances (CIED) with regard to doing something concrete about this problem.
EKTAKTO - ΗΠΑ: Εγκρίθηκε από τη Γερουσία η αμυντική συμφωνία ΗΠΑ - Ελλάδας
Απομένει να υπογράφει από τον Πρόεδρο Μπάιντεν για να γίνει νόμος του αμερικανικού κράτους
Ένα βήμα πριν γίνει νόμος των ΗΠΑ είναι πλέον η αμυντική συμφωνία ΗΠΑ Ελλάδος καθώς ο Αμυντικός Προϋπολογισμός του 2022 στον οποίο περιλαμβάνεται ως τροπολογία, εγκρίθηκε από την ολομέλεια της Γερουσίας.
Μετά από αυτήν την εξέλιξη, η αμυντική συμφωνία είναι ζήτημα χρόνου να υπογράφει από τον Πρόεδρο Μπάιντεν και να γίνει νόμος του αμερικανικού κράτους.
Πως το Κατάρ τροφοδοτεί την ισλαμική τρομοκρατία στην Ινδία - Ειδική ανάλυση - Νήμα
Η Ινδία αντιμετωπίζει μια αυξανόμενη απειλή τρομοκρατίας εδώ και πολύ καιρό στο Κασμίρ. Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες, πολλές ισλαμιστικές οργανώσεις αναπτύχθηκαν, άκμασαν και επιβίωσαν στην Ινδία.
Το πιο σημαντικό χαρακτηριστικό τέτοιων οργανισμών είναι η νομική ομπρέλα κάτω από την οποία λειτουργούν. Συχνά εργάζονται κάτω από το ένδυμα φιλανθρωπικών ομάδων, ΜΚΟ και θρησκευτικών ιδρυμάτων.
Το Middle East Forum, ένας οργανισμός με έδρα τη Φιλαδέλφεια, ανακάλυψε χιλιάδες έγγραφα, που σχετίζονται με τον Φιλανθρωπικό Σύλλογο Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al Thani, που εδρεύει στο Κατάρ, που αναφέρεται επίσης ως Eid Charity.
#Bangladesh military delegation recalls #India's efforts in the 1971 Liberation War with thankfulness
A Bangladesh military delegation, which is visiting India for the Vijay Parv celebrations, recalled India's efforts in the 1971 Liberation War with thankfulness.
The military delegation is headed by Major General SM Kamrul Hasan. "The syllabus of our military institutions, as well as the educational institutions, adequately reflects the history of the liberation war.
The history of the liberation war in 1971 is not complete without the story of the Indian side," said Major General Kamrul Hasan of the Bangladesh Army
Αποκάλυψη: Κίνα-Πακιστάν ετοιμάζουν συνεργασία στο τομέα των ΜΜΕ - Ξεκινούν την παραπληροφόρηση σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο
Οι δύο χώρες πραγματοποίησαν τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2021 το πρώτο ''China Pakistan Media Forum''. Σκοπός τους να αντιμετωπίσουν τα δυτικά ΜΜΕ τα οποία γράφουν εναντίον τους. Πεκίνο & Ισλαμαμπάντ θα δημιουργήσουν τον «Δημοσιογραφικό Διάδρομο Κίνας-Πακιστάν».
Σύμφωνα με τον Κινέζο πρεσβευτή στο Πακιστάν Νονγκ Ρονγκ, οι δύο χώρες ''αντιμετωπίζουν μια προπαγανδιστική εκστρατεία'' & οι 2 χώρες θα πρέπει να συνεργαστούν για να «προάγουν την αλήθεια, τη δικαιοσύνη, την ειρήνη και την σταθερότητα».