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SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk: FOCAC 9: join the co-Founders of the China Global South Project as they preview the key themes of the 2024 China-Africa Summit
DESCRIPTION:Chinese and African leaders will gather in Beijing during the first week of September for the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit. This year’s event comes at a pivotal time for stakeholders on all sides\, amid heightened great power competition\, China’s slowing economy\, and intense challenges brought on by climate change\, among other issues. African leaders will be coming to FOCAC with a long list of requests for increased Chinese economic engagement\, particularly for major infrastructure initiatives. But that may be a hard sell for the Chinese government\, which has cut back significantly on overseas development finance lending in Africa and other developing regions. Instead\, Beijing will be focusing on opening new markets for smaller-scale green and digital technologies and deepening political ties with African governments.\n\nJoin Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden\, hosts of the popular China in Africa Podcast and managing editors of The China-Global South Project\, for a lively discussion on the key themes that will be addressed at this year’s FOCAC. In advance of their talk\, you can listen and read all of CGSP’s coverage of FOCAC and download briefing reports written by Cobus that looks at the FOCAC summit from both African and Chinese perspectives:\n\n\n Taking Control: Africa’s Challenges and Priorities at FOCAC 2024\nChina’s agenda at FOCAC 2024: Climate\, Connectivity & Coalitions\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: \nEric Olander is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience reporting\, producing\, and managing newsrooms for some of the world’s leading editorial organizations\, including CNN\, FRANCE 24\, and the BBC World Service\, among others. He has an extensive background working in newsrooms and doing content production in the U.S.\, Europe\, Africa\, and Asia. China\, though\, has been the central focus of Eric’s professional career. He first went to China in 1989 and spent more than a decade of combined time living\, studying\, and working there. Eric is fluent in both French and Mandarin Chinese. He received his undergraduate degree in East African history from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s of International Public Affairs with a focus on Chinese foreign policy from the University of Hong Kong. \nCobus van Staden is an accomplished scholar\, journalist\, and think tank analyst with more than 20 years of experience in Africa and Asia. Previously\, he was the senior China-Africa researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg. Cobus completed his Ph.D. in Japanese studies and media studies at the University of Nagoya in Japan in 2008. He focused on comparisons of Chinese and Japanese public diplomacy in Africa during postdoctoral positions at the University of Stellenbosch and the SARCHI Chair on African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg before joining the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2013. His academic research focused on media coverage of the China-Africa and Japan-Africa relationships\, as well as the use of media in public diplomacy in the Global South.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-focac-9-preview-of-key-themes-at-this-years-china-africa-summit/
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