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We present again an excerpt from our forthcoming report on Israeli media coverage of China in 2024. This section showcases an overview of Israeli commentators’ perspectives on trade and technological relations with China. As noted in the excerpt ...

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Philippine authorities said Tuesday they detained two Chinese nationals for spying, the latest in a series of arrests involving alleged espionage as confrontations between the countries increase in the disputed South China Sea. The men allegedly paid a trio of Filipino ...

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Bolivia Inaugurates Steel Plant Built With Chinese Loan

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How to Lure Chinese Financing Back to the Global South: Report

Global South countries face increasing financing pressure, endangering their ability to keep developing while also implementing measures to deal with a growing climate crisis. The disruption of global trade is coupled with a larger megatrend: flows of international capital to the developing world have turned negative. This means that countries are now routinely paying more to service loans than they receive in disbursements.

The vast majority of Global South borrowers ...

Chinese AI, Automotive Tech Poised to Sweep Across Global South

When the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer launched DeepSeek on January 20th, the global AI market for large language model (LLM) systems was turned upside down. Investors dumped nearly a trillion dollars of tech stocks in the U.S., panicked by the prospect ...