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Trump, China and Africa: Key Issues
As news of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet choices trickles in, many are trying to game out what foreign policy will look like in the Trump 2.0 era. For Africa, that’s particularly tricky because Trump was largely disinterested in the continent during ...
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Biden, Xi Arrive in Peru Ahead of Face-to-Face at Asia-Pacific Summit
By Hector Velasco and Mariëtte Le Roux US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrive Thursday in Lima for an Asia-Pacific summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under Donald Trump.
Buy Now, Pay Later: Latin America Pressured by Chinese Online Shops
By Paulina Abramovich Isidora Olave opens a package containing a T-shirt, a skirt, and a handful of glitter stickers shipped to her front door in Santiago, Chile, all the way from China, almost 20,000 kilometers away.
Biden, Xi to Meet in Peru on Saturday: US Official
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Saturday at the APEC summit in Peru, in what will likely be their last encounter before Donald Trump returns to the White House, US officials said. The meeting will be ...
U.S. Official Says China and Russia Blocked ASEAN Summit Statement
An unnamed U.S. official told Reuters that China and Russia rejected a joint statement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at its East Asia summit in Vientiane, Laos. The summit was dominated by tensions resulting from territorial disputes in ...
A pedestrian reads a sign at a petrol station in Tacloban City, Leyte province, central Philippines on March 30, 2026. Photo by MARLON TANO / AFP
In response to Iran’s partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the United States has begun implementing a counter-blockade—leveraging naval patrols, sanctions enforcement, and selective interdictions to constrain Iranian oil exports and raise the costs of Tehran’s strategy. Rather than restoring stability, however, this tit-for-tat dynamic is accelerating fragmentation in global ...
China Says Military Delegation Visited Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
A Chinese military delegation recently visited the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to discuss further cooperation in defense issues, Beijing said on Wednesday. China is seeking to build closer ties in South Asia to counter its strategic rival, India, for influence. ...
Top Chinese Think Tank Analyst Urges ASEAN Countries to Stay Out of U.S.-China Duel
Attempts to contain China's rise would only fuel its grievances, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warned in a recent speech in Australia. This sentiment struck a chord with a highly-placed Chinese academic who wrote a commentary on WeChat to put his own proverbial ...
Two Ghanaian Prison Guards Arrested for Aiding Escape Attempt of Chinese National
A pair of Ghanaian prison guards at a medium security facility near Accra have been arrested for trying to facilitate the escape of a Chinese national serving a one-year jail sentence. The two were caught on camera dropping off the ...
China’s Slowing Economy Could be a Catalyst for Change in Africa
Angolan President João Lourenço kicked off a three-day visit to China this week that will take him to Beijing and Shandong Province. The timing of Lourenço's trip comes as the Chinese economy is facing enormous challenges amid a plunge in FDI, ...
New Research Tracks Chinese, Russian Disinformation Campaigns in Africa
The number of disinformation campaigns purportedly initiated by Russia and China in Africa has nearly quadrupled since 2022, according to a new data set produced by the Pentagon-backed Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Researchers documented 189 instances of intentional efforts to ...