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Trump Threatens to Take Back Control of Panama Canal

Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump on Saturday slammed what he called unfair fees for U.S. ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand control of the waterway be returned to Washington. He also hinted at China's growing influence around ...

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Sri Lanka President to Visit Key Lender China

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will travel to the island's largest bilateral lender, China, for talks in January, he said on Saturday, days after completing a long-delayed foreign debt restructuring. China accounted for more than half of Sri Lanka's bilateral ...
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WEEK IN REVIEW: China Seeks to Restore Direct Flights India

Australia, Japan, and the U.S. on Sunday committed to closer military cooperation in training their forces as the countries deepened their ties in a bid to counter China’s military strength. Australia’s Minister of Defense Richard Marles hosted his counterparts for the trilateral ministers’ meeting- the first to be ...
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BRICS Leaders Gather in Russia for First Meeting Since Enlargement

The leaders of the BRICS+ group will kick off the bloc’s first leaders’ summit since admitting new members this year. The gathering in Kazan, Russia, from Tuesday to Thursday this week comes as the group faces both increasingly stark geopolitical tensions and new disputes among the recent ...
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China and India Reach Border Patrolling Deal

India and China reached an agreement about military patrols along their disputed border, according to a senior Indian official. It could pave the way for the easing of tensions between the two powers. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced on Monday: ...

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How the Strait of Hormuz Disruption Exposed Southeast Asia’s Fragile LNG Strategy

How the Strait of Hormuz Disruption Exposed Southeast Asia’s Fragile LNG Strategy
An LPG gas tanker at anchor as traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Shinas, Oman, March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Benoit Tessie
Conflict in the Middle East has only intensified over the past two years. The recent disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most critical energy chokepoint, has sent shockwaves across Southeast Asia, a region heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports.  Around one-fifth of global ...
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Chen Heyi
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Zambia’s Finance Minister Acknowledged His Country Borrowed Too Much From China

Zambian Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said the quiet part out loud when he acknowledged that previous administrations borrowed too much money from China. “The level of debt that Zambia acquired from China was way, way too high,” he told the Wall ...

The Long Arm of Chinese Law Enforcement in Southeast Asia

Two China Eastern planes chartered by the Ministry of Public Security arrived in Wuhan from Cambodia on Sunday carrying the last batch of 680 telecom fraud suspects apprehended in a joint Sino-Cambodian police operation earlier this month. Soon after they disembarked, ...

Massive U.S.-Philippine Joint Military Exercises Get Underway With the Goal of Sending a Clear Message to China

Nearly 17,000 soldiers from four countries are mobilizing in the Philippines as part of unprecedented joint military exercises that are bound to further strain tensions with Beijing over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The annual “Balikatan" exercises, named after the ...

‘China Is the Winner’ in Maldives Election

A landslide parliamentary election victory for the Maldives' pro-China president clears the way for him to redraw the physical and geopolitical map of his strategically-located Indian Ocean archipelago in Beijing's favor, diplomats and analysts say. President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's ...

All Hands-on Deck Needed for Development Finance—including China

By Tim Hirschel-Burns Many people in the development finance community migrated up the United States' eastern seaboard over the weekend. Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group Spring Meetings took place in Washington D.C., while this week ...

Philippines, U.S. Launch Annual Joint Military Drills

By Pam CASTRO Thousands of Filipino and American troops kicked off joint military exercises in the Philippines on Monday, as Beijing's growing assertiveness in the region raises fears of a conflict. The annual drills—dubbed Balikatan, ...

Pro-China Solomons PM Fails To Secure Outright Majority

The incumbent prime minister of Solomon Islands was set to fall short of an outright election majority Monday, forcing the pro-Beijing Pacific leader to woo an unwieldy mix of potential coalition partners. According to provisional results reported by the public broadcaster, ...

Landslide Win for Pro-China Leader’s Party in Maldives Vote

By Mohamed Visham Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party won control of parliament in a Sunday election landslide, results showed, with voters backing his tilt towards China and away from regional powerhouse and traditional benefactor India. ...
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