Newsletter 33/August-September 2024

Contents: Expectations for FOCAC 2024 +++ NATO on a risky course +++ Blogroll Update: 9Dashline +++ People’s Map of Global China Updates +++ This is the last edition of the newsletter for the time being. After four years, my blog ‘China, Geopolitics and the Global South’ is taking a creative break. Uwe Hoering

Numbers mystique at ChinAfrica Forum

If the ‘8th Forum on China Africa Cooperation’ at the end of November was an indicator of the intensified competition between the United States, Europe and China for Africa, Beijing kept a fairly low profile. The limited media attention given to the meeting, which was scheduled only at the ministerial level, gives the impression that most observers wanted to quickly and graciously spread the cloak of silence over FOCAC8 and its results.