China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, we kick off the new network show, the China-Global South Podcast, with a conversation with the show's hosts and co-founders of the China-Global South Project (formerly the China Africa Project), Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden. Kaiser chats with them about where the show is going, and common misconceptions about China's role in the Global South.

1:45 – Reasons for launching the new China-Global South Podcast

13:50 – What Washington’s framing of China’s activity in the Global South gets wrong

19:24 – Explaining the lack of China expertise in Africa and the Global North

25:27 – The unresolved history of Western colonialism in Africa

28:44 – How Chinese statecraft navigates Africa’s colonial legacy

36:00 – The infantilization of African agency

45:03 – The limited development options of African stakeholders

47:33 – China’s environmental impact on the Global South

57:13 – How small states can effectively navigate great power politics

A transcript of the podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com.

Recommendations:

Eric: Following Gyude Moore, Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development: @gyude_moore; Hannah Ryder; CEO of Development Reimagined: @hmryder; Ovigue Eguegu; Policy Analyst at Development Reimagined: @ovigweeguegu; and Christian-Geraud Neema; and Francophone Editor at the China-Global South Project: @christiangeraud

Cobus: The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee

Kaiser: Chinese traditional bow maker AF Archery; The Way of Archery by Gao Ying, translated by Jie Tian and Justin Ma

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with The China Project.
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0:22.2	but all the original writing on our website at theChinaproject.com.
0:26.1	We've got reported stories, essays, and editorials, great explainers, and trackers,
0:30.5	regular columns, and of course, a growing library of podcasts.
0:34.3	That's especially relevant today.
0:37.0	We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations
0:39.7	to its ingenious entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples
0:44.3	in China's Xinjiang region to Beijing's ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy
0:50.0	onto a post-carbon footing. It's a feast of business political and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world.
0:58.5	We cover China with neither fear nor favor.
1:01.6	I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
1:05.2	Today I am delighted to introduce the latest show on the Seneca Network, the China Global South podcast. And to chat with
1:12.6	the creators and co-hosts, our good friends, Eric Olander and Kobus van Stodden, who are, of course,
1:17.9	the co-founders of the China Global South Project. So we've got a joint podcast for you today,
1:24.6	a crossover show, you might say, to introduce the China Global
1:28.1	South podcast. And guys, welcome and congratulations. First off on the new show, we are very,
1:33.1	very excited to go to launch. Thank you so much, Kaiser. Awesome to be back on the show with you and
1:38.9	just honored that you are with us to help introduce this new exciting project. Thanks so much.
1:45.0	Yeah, lots and lots to talk about.
1:47.1	First of all, I guess the obvious question is, you know, hey, they say if it ain't broke,
1:51.2	don't fix it.
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