Hosting dozens of African Leaders today and such she for the 1st ever russia africa summit chief of aims to jumpstart with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union then major player in africa 54 delegates including heads of state and government are expected to attend the 2 day meeting with trade and investment high on the agenda. Now russia has big plans in africa particularly in Mineral Resources like in the republic of congo where although multinational lukoil is involved in a Natural Gas Development project in sudan and the Central African republic a close ally of president putin has secured mining on instances for gold in guinea a russian aluminum producer is doing on back side iraq that contains high levels of aluminum and in zimbabwe russia wants to get into platinum mining by a Company Called afro met while until now russia has seen relatively muted trade with african countries exports and imports to the entire continent were valued at only around 20000000000 d
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry deny doing anything wrong but would you that you know that i think t
A crime school. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you that you on
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