Lauren Johnston

According to some estimates, China imports around three million African hides a year, with 25%-35% taken from stolen animals.

China’s hosting of APEC 2026 places digital trade, artificial intelligence and regional economic integration at the centre of the Asia-Pacific agenda, reflecting both the opportunities and challenges of a rapidly changing global economy. The article examines the forum’s key priorities and highlights how Australia can use APEC to advance open markets, strengthen regional cooperation and help shape emerging digital governance frameworks.

The paper traces China's extraordinary U-shaped demand for donkeys and the related emergence of a donkey skin global supply chain that prices a donkey hide at rates higher than the annual per capita income in donkey-dependent parts of rural low-incom

Population shrinkage is real, but migration, productivity and policy could make aging more manageable

From 2013 (from a now offline website, Sinograduate)

Middle East tensions and the economic disruptions they have caused will nudge China closer to Africa.

Some sectors could profit from the new tariff-free regime. But politically, this step is also part of a geopolitical strategy by Peking.

La suppression totale des droits de douane pourrait dynamiser les échanges entre les pays africains et favoriser une meilleure coordination entre eux.

China’s zero tariff regime has the potential to boost trade between African countries and lead to better coordination.

New free trade port is becoming a launchpad for medical tourism, finance reform and even space

In 2024, the African Union halted exports to China of Africa’s donkeys. How Beijing responded is a case study in its management of relations with the Global South.

China is the African continental trade bloc’s largest sovereign trade partner, and has been so since 2009.1 Driven initially by China’s late 20th- and early 21st-century demand for commodities,2 th...

On 18th December 2025, China officially launched the Hainan Free Trade Port – its first free trade port designed to become a global business hub with low taxes and streamlined trade processes. The initiative introduces five key reforms spanning

Beijing must elevate domestic consumption while protecting needy people

Tanzania has a unique political economy, both regionally and nationally, pioneering several African firsts with China, such as establishing the first official investment centre in China’s Africa zone in Hunan.

The BRICS as a concept derives from a 2001 Goldman Sachs’ report authored by economist Jim O’Neil, Build Better Global Economic BRICs, in which BRIC refers to Brazil, Russia, India and China, four ...

The article examines China’s strategic use of Hunan Province to deepen trade ties with Africa through CAETE, and explores the implications and potential responses for Australia

The upcoming launch of high-grade iron ore mine from West Africa - backed by China - threatens Australia’s economic reliance of its Pilbara iron ore exports

Il n'est pas certain que la réponse de la Chine aux tensions commerciales américaines ait influencé sa politique africaine, mais il y a des coïncidences.