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Aug 16 5 tweets 4 min read
The article identifies main vectors of China’s engagement in the so-called Global South & examines their adaptive nature with particular reference to the recent "debt backlash" and the increasing soft-powering of development aid. 2/5
The Chinese development policy is currently undergoing a substantial reorganisation towards #softpower initiatives in response to (geo)political backlashes arising from the previous implementation of the #BRI & the risks such loans present to the Chinese economy. 3/5
Neo-Gramscian sensitivity towards the dialectical relationship between materialist & ideational dimensions of global power helps to understand Chinese efforts to bolster its influence in global development, incl. efforts to strengthen China’s #softpower in the Global South. 4/5
The late realisation in the 'West' of the strategic importance of aid to maintain influence in ongoing & upcoming processes of infrastructuring and greening the Global South increases the pressure on Beijing to address governance failures in Global China’s aid regime. 5/5

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Aug 15
My comments in @SCMPNews on China's involvement in the construction of the @AfricaCDC headquarters in #AddisAbaba. "[...] not only African governments but also regional organisations choose their partners very pragmatically" @PW_UniFreiburg scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Tim Zajontz, research fellow at the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at @StellenboschUni in South Africa, said the Covid-19 pandemic had made public health another central domain for China to project its soft power.
"It came as no surprise that the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation at last year's gathering in Dakar pledged to further step up cooperation in the health sector," Zajontz said. He said the CDC headquarters was yet another example of Beijing's targeted support to the AU.
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