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China Warns Against Maritime ‘Bloc Confrontations’ as Region Swells With Military Activity

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said maritime disputes should be settled through dialogue and warned against “bloc confrontations” just hours before the kickoff of major military exercises by the U.S., Japan, and South Korea in the Philippines. The comments also come ...

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U.S. Commits Half a Billion Dollars to Sri Lankan Port To Take On China

The United States will lend $553 million for a new deep-water shipping container facility in Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo. The project will be the largest undertaken by the U.S. foreign development agency, the Development Finance Corporation (DFC), as it challenges China’s ...

Hal Brands on the Politics of “America’s Absurd Pledge to Defend a Decaying Rust Bucket”

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Changan Becomes Latest Chinese Automaker to Break Ground in Thailand

Changan, one of China’s Big Four automakers, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for its first assembly plant in Thailand, following other Chinese car sellers in a rapid expansion into Southeast Asia. The new manufacturing facility is located in Thailand’s auto hotspot ...

Xinhua Lays Out China’s Approach in the Middle East

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China Looms Large At This Week’s ASEAN Summit

Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are gathering in the remote Indonesian town of Labuan Bajo for the 42nd ASEAN summit taking place this week.  The summit comes as ASEAN is trying to recover from the economic disruption ...

China-Central Asia Summit Confirmed for May 18 and 19

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that President Xi Jinping will chair a summit between China and Central Asian states in the northern city of Xi’an on May 18 and 19. The so-called C+C5 summit will include leaders from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, ...

Connecting the Dots: Hunan Province Expands its Trade Clout Beyond Africa

With yearly media blitzes like the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, China’s Hunan province is increasingly key to agricultural trade with the continent. This trade jumped by 82.9% last year alone, coming to $2 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to recent provincial customs data.

The Real Drivers and Impacts of Chinese Overseas Lending and Development Finance

By Oyintarelado Moses Debates about the drivers and impacts of Chinese overseas lending and development finance (OLDF) have accompanied the rise of China as the world’s largest official bilateral lender.  Amidst stalled debt negotiations under the ...

China’s Confusing, Contradictory Policy on Coal Power

In September 2021, President Xi Jinping announced at the United Nations that China would immediately halt all financing of coal power projects abroad as part of Beijing's broader ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. ...
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