Chinese Timber Companies in Mozambique Destabilize Northern Region

 War on the Rocks published on 23 September 2021 a commentary titled "Al-Shabaab and Chinese Trade Practices in Mozambique" by Henry Tugendhat and Sergio Chichava.  

China's limited action and inability to control illegal timber practices by Chinese companies in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region are fundamentally destabilizing a state that needs more support.  

Looking Back: China and South Africa's Apartheid Government

The Daily Maverick published on 6 November 2017 an expose titled "Declassified: Apartheid Profits--China's Support for Apartheid Revealed".

Drawing on declassified South African government documents, the article reports that China supplied South Africa's apartheid military with guns, ammunition and weaponry beginning at least as early as 1980, a period when South Africa had diplomatic relations with Taiwan. At least one of the shipments appears to have made its way from Durban to units of UNITA in Angola and RENAMO in Mozambique, liberation groups supported at the time by both China and South Africa.