Senior Researcher: China Africa, South African Institute of International Affairs
Cobus van Staden has a PhD from the University of Nagoya in media studies. His initial research focused on media-forged links between Japan and the global south. He subsequently expanded this research to focus on both China and Japan's relationships with Africa. He is currently a senior researcher focusing on China-Africa issues at the South African Institute of International Affairs. He also co-hosts the China in Africa Podcast, a forum to expand the global conversation on the relationship between Africa and China.

Ties between African countries and China are complex. Understanding this matters
Oct 16, 2018 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Yu-Shan Wu, Foreign policy researcher and doctoral candidate, University of the Witwatersrand The complex relationship between Africa and China has become even more complicated this year. Initially, 2018 was set to...