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U.S., China Raise the Stakes in Panama Canal Ports Row

By Holmes Chan, with Luna Lin in Beijing China's fury at the sale of Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led consortium reflects how container hubs have become prized currency as Beijing and Washington vie for global influence, analysts say.

China, South Korea and Japan Agree to Strengthen Free Trade

By Hieun Shin China, South Korea, and Japan agreed Sunday to strengthen free trade in the face of a raft of new tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The agreement came at a meeting ...

Chinese Sailors Missing off Ghana in Suspected Pirate Attack

Three Chinese nationals are missing after their vessel came under a "suspected pirate attack" off the coast of Ghana, authorities said over the weekend. The apparent kidnapping is the latest in the Gulf of Guinea, an area off the Atlantic coast ...

Cambodia’s Strategic Bet: Banking on China’s Vision for a Second Shenzhen

Cambodia is making a strategic bet by aligning itself closely with China’s economic and geopolitical vision, particularly through the "second Shenzhen" dream in Preah Sihanouk province. The Fourth Think Tank High-Level Forum, held this week in Phnom Penh and Siem ...

Q&A: Indonesia’s Nickel Strategy Benefits China, Offers Cautionary Tale for Developing Nations, Says Researcher

Indonesia controls the world’s largest nickel reserves, crucial to powering electric vehicles and fueling the global green transition. But despite its natural advantage, the country finds itself missing out on the actual industrial gains. Instead of building homegrown technological ...

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China-Led Study Proposes Global Energy Network

A globally connected network of solar and wind energy could provide three times the global energy demand by 2050 at a lower cost than independent national power systems. This is the finding of a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Denmark.

The study focused on how areas with high solar and wind capacity (such as deserts) can be linked to ...