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More than two months ago, Panama’s Supreme Court annulled a long-standing contract that allowed Hong Kong-based company CK Hutchison to operate the ports of Balboa and Cristobal, located at either end of the Panama Canal. The decision essentially removed a Chinese-linked company from two of the most ...
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By Lucinda Elliott and Marco Aquino As Peru heads into the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, Washington is mounting its most assertive push in years to shore up influence in the major copper producer that has become a ...
Guinea Iron Ore Project Tests China’s ‘Transition Finance’ Credibility
By Deng Yaowen In January 2024, China Baowu Steel Group issued the first tranche of a bond that raised CNY 10 billion ($1.45 billion) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Media reports described it as one ...
Taiwan Sees Only Warships and Warplanes as China Talks Peace With Opposition
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard Taiwanese officials are tracking what they view as a worrying rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure against the island, even as Beijing presses a message of peace and cooperation in meetings with Taiwan's opposition ...
China Will Not Tolerate Taiwan Independence, Xi Tells It’s Opposition Leader
China will "absolutely not tolerate" independence for Taiwan, which is the chief culprit in undermining peace in the Taiwan Strait, President Xi Jinping told the island's opposition leader on Friday. Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), ...
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China's Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on a Hormuz resolution at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 7, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
By Felix Brender 王哲謙 When China and Russia vetoed the UN Security Council’s Strait of Hormuz resolution on 7 April, after weeks of increasingly plaintive calls for Beijing to “do more” over Iran, a familiar argument resurfaced: if China wants the status ...
Russia Joins Chinese, Iran Warships for Drills off South Africa
A Russian warship arrived off South Africa's main naval base on Friday to join Chinese and Iranian vessels in military exercises that risk further damaging Pretoria's relations with Washington. The exercises draw together several nations feuding with the US administration and ...
China FM Skips Historic Somalia Visit, Lands in Tanzania
China's top diplomat Wang Yi skipped what would have been a historic visit to Somalia on Friday, instead proceeding straight to Tanzania on his tour of African countries. The visit would have been the first by a Chinese foreign minister to ...
Japan to Test Deep Sea Rare Earth Mining to Cut China Reliance
Japan embarks Sunday on what it says is the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at a depth of 6,000 metres -- greater than the height of Mount Fuji -- to curb dependence on China. A Japanese deep-sea ...