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By Saniya Kulkarni According to reports the annual ASEAN summit, which takes place today in Phnom Penh, is prioritizing the issue of rising violence in member state Myanmar following the 2021 coup which resulted in a military junta displacing the elected government ...
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China’s Strategy of Staying Out of Iran
China's Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on a Hormuz resolution at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 7, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
By Felix Brender 王哲謙 When China and Russia vetoed the UN Security Council’s Strait of Hormuz resolution on 7 April, after weeks of increasingly plaintive calls for Beijing to “do more” over Iran, a familiar argument resurfaced: if China wants the status ...

The Only Way is South

Earlier this week, we highlighted a tweet from the Africa News journalist Ronald Kato: “Can safely argue at this point that the recent EU-Africa summit was a waste of time. The Global Gway is dead.”

An Update on China-Kenya Ties With Journalist Eliud Kibii

China's ambassador to Kenya Zhou Pingjian sat down with a local reporter Eliud Kibii from The Star newspaper earlier this month for a rare one-on-one interview. Chinese diplomats tend to be quite media shy so it's news whenever ...
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