Day: November 13, 2025
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A Post-American Shift Complicates Growth Strategies for the Global South
by Lukas Fiala and Chris Alden From the BRICS to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), members of recently expanding international fora are quick to point to a multipolar order as a hopeful imaginary of post-Western internationalism.
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Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (C) arrives at Beijing Capital Airport ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), on September 1, 2024. (Photo by Greg Baker / POOL / AFP)
The first few days of November delivered a powerful, if chilling, lesson in contemporary geopolitics for Abuja. When the U.S. President, Donald Trump, fresh from re-designating Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” for religious freedom violations, threatened to intervene militarily in the nation “guns-a-blazing” over allegations of mass killings of ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: China’s U.S. Soybean Orders Jump After Trade Truce, Then Subsides
The Chinese authorities unveiled plans this week to use their boom in renewable energy to power a whole set of ancillary industries. During the 2026-2030 five-year plan period, provinces and power producers will reportedly be pushed to build up local industrial bases to boost the production of green ...
China Responds to Week of Terrorism in South Asia
China’s Foreign Ministry expressed shock and sent condolences following two separate terrorist incidents in India and Pakistan. On Monday, 10 November, a car explosion in Delhi during rush hour killed 12 people and injured 30 more. In a statement, the Indian government ...
India’s Top Tennis Player Says Denied China Visa
India's top-ranked men's tennis player Sumit Nagal said China denied him a visa weeks before he was set to appear at an Australian Open qualifying tournament in southwestern Sichuan. "I am supposed to fly to China soon to represent India at ...
Alleged Chinese Scam Kingpin Extradited From Thailand: Police
An alleged Chinese racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar was extradited from Thailand to China on Wednesday, a police official in Bangkok told AFP. She Zhijiang had been in Thai custody since 2022 after spending more than ...