Issue 004 (November 2025)

  • Editor’s Note: Bajans in China, Life in China, China-Barbados Connections

    Personal experiences are the stuff of which friendships are made, and the Association for Barbados-China Friendship is happy to feature on our cover one such experience, Joshua Johnson’s reflections o
  • Mission: Friendship

    An important service of the Association for Barbados-China Friendship in pursuit of our mission of building friendships between Caribbean people and the Chinese, is our weekly newsletter, the ABCF Upd
  • Student Life in China

    In 2023 I went to China to pursue an International Masters in Engineering Management (IMEM) at the top university in China.
  • Barbados' China-Funded Hop Project Nears Completion

    Two major projects funded by the People’s Republic of China, designed to enhance the island’s approach to agriculture are nearing completion.
  • Chinese Medicine Finding Its Local Niche

    Barbadians are becoming more familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and are very receptive of it.
  • Chinese Cars

    Chinese vehicles are becoming increasingly common in Barbados, with the introduction of Great Wall Motors (GWM) Tank 500 SUVs and Haval by local distributor Caribbean Automotive Retailers, and the arr
  • The Chinese Connection to Barbados

    CHO is a Chinese name familiar to Barbadians that goes as far back as the 1960s when there was just a mere handful of Chinese living in Barbados.
  • Bajans Flying High in China

    When Captain Johan Trotman and First Officer Craig Haniff stepped into the cockpit of Air Macau’s Airbus A321 in Asia on August 10, they were doing far more than preparing for takeoff.
  • Daily Life in China

    Readers of my ABCF Updates are treated to a weekly slice of life in China, in addition to news of the Association and other events and opinion.
  • China’s Gaokao

    As I write this, it is Sunday, April 6th, 2025, the last day of the Qingming Festival.
  • Barbados Can't Stay Offline in a Cashless World

    How a billion people pay intuitively — and why we should too It hit me the moment I stepped off the plane in Beijing.
  • Snapshots of Life and Opinion in China

    In compiling my weekly newsletter about life and opinion in China I use a variety of sources from inside China as well as from the Caribbean, North America and the UK.

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