Almost going unnoticed to the unkeen Ugandan journalistic eye, there is a diplomatic routine between the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It happens every few years, when senior government officials of the ruling NRM welcome a delegation of high-ranking members of the CCP. Sometimes the reception is reciprocated in Beijing. […]

China calls for an immediate and full ceasefire, opposes renewed conflict, and stresses the priority of talks on the Iran situation, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed […]

The ascent to global dominance by the United States after WWI quickly shifted the global power balance, typically to a two power contest until the end of the cold war. With the breakup of the Soviet Union however, America with her Western following enjoyed a near-competition-free unipolar moment until the emergence of China at the […]

In the global governance discourse, Western epistemological colonisation has led us to believe, unquestioningly, that electoral democracy is the only process through which a political system can gain legitimacy. I disagree. China is one country whose political leadership challenges the applicability of democracy in a universal fashion, as an obvious truism. The Chinese Communist Party […]

As I write this, one country is leading the world in application of robotics, not just on earth, but also on the moon. China’s robots are currently scrubbing the surface of the moon, harvesting and returning materials of scientific experiments. China is still the only nation to have performed robotic rendezvous and docking at the […]

It is worthwhile to reach a consensus with Wang Dingjun, the Chinese writer and critic when he argued that literature never dies. This agreement can be arrived at by reading a 2011 publication, The Throne of Fire, by an American author, Richard Russell Riordan Jr. In this book, during a moment of crisis and reflection, […]