Day: April 20, 2025

When Eddy Soeparno, Deputy Speaker of Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), met with China’s top leaders in Beijing last week, the visit went far beyond the usual diplomatic formalities. It was an example of the kind of purposeful engagement that should define the future of Indonesia-China relations: ...

“I don’t recall any U.S. company visiting me during my two-and-a-half years of government”, former president Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador recently told the Financial Times, adding, “Meanwhile, Chinese companies were visiting me almost on a daily basis”. Lasso, a conservative millionaire businessman who ruled Ecuador from 2021 ...