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ASEAN Parliamentarians Call for China Meeting on Rohingya

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), a body of current and former legislators from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), called for a conference involving the ten member countries of the bloc, Bangladesh, and China to resolve the longstanding problems facing the Rohingya ethnic minority.

Zambia’s Chinese-Built Solar Plant to Keep Mines Running and Shape Its Energy Future

In a country where rolling blackouts last up to 17 hours a day, Zambia’s new $100 million Chisamba solar plant offers both hope and hard choices. The project, built by the Chinese state-run energy giant PowerChina and financed by Zambia’s national utility ZESCO, is designed ...

Unpacking the Indonesian President’s Trip to China

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto made a brief visit to China to join the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, even as protests simmered at home. The tightly scheduled visit was seen as a way of projecting stability abroad and reconnecting with ...

China’s Xi at Center of World Stage After Days of High-Level Hobnobbing

By Rebecca Bailey Two blockbuster events in China this week were a successful exposition of President Xi Jinping's vision of a new world order -- one that puts him and his country firmly at its center while sidelining his rival, the ...

China’s Small State Diplomacy Strategy in Latin America

While most of the world's attention at this week's Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin was on Xi Jinping's meetings with leaders from the big powers, namely India and Russia, the Chinese President also spent considerable time with heads of state ...

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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 ...

Indonesia’s Prabowo, in China’s Spotlight, Ignores Nation’s Tumult for Global Showmanship

On Wednesday morning in Beijing, as the People’s Liberation Army marched in lockstep through Tiananmen Square, one foreign leader stood conspicuously close to the Chinese and Russian presidents. Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto, clad in a tailored gray suit, sat shoulder to shoulder with Vladimir Putin and Xi ...