Author: CGSP Staff

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the head of the World Trade Organization, called on China to change its model of growth because of its impact on global trade surpluses. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, she said that while China wants to support the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that goods from 53 African countries will have duty-free access to the Chinese market from 1 May 2026. In a message sent to the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on Saturday, Xi said universal zero-tariff ...

China's chief trade negotiator Li Chenggang met Mexico's Deputy Economy Minister Vidal Llerenas in Beijing on Monday in the first face-to-face talks since Mexico imposed tariffs up to 35% on Chinese goods, China's Commerce Ministry announced Thursday. The two countries conducted exchanges on bilateral economic and trade relations. ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright urged expanded American investment in Venezuela’s oil and gas sector during the highest-level U.S. energy-focused visit to the country in nearly three decades, following its invasion in January. He cautioned Venezuelan leaders against what Washington frames as ...

The Trump administration warned Peru that the Chinese-built Port of Chancay risks undermining the country’s sovereignty, escalating U.S. pressure over Beijing’s growing infrastructure footprint in Latin America.

Chinese analysts are responding to Washington’s push to build a China-free critical minerals supply chain with a mix of urgency and confidence. While U.S. policymakers are leaning on allies, financing, and offtake agreements to secure supplies of African copper, cobalt, and other strategic inputs, analysts in China ...

Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spoke via video call on Wednesday ahead of the Ukraine war’s fourth anniversary. They praised their “no-limits” strategic partnership and vowed to deepen ties in energy and trade. Xi urged crafting a “grand plan” for expanded cooperation, and Putin accepted an invitation ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Wednesday strongly rejected China's warning that Panama would pay a "heavy price" after the Supreme Court invalidated Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison's concession to operate two strategic ports on the Panama Canal. The court ruled the contract unconstitutional, citing disproportionate favoritism toward the ...

The Washington critical minerals talks have already begun translating into policy. Within hours of the meeting, U.S. lawmakers and allies announced a coordinated set of proposals—from expanded export finance to strategic stockpiles—signaling a faster, more interventionist push to loosen China’s grip on global ...

China’s Foreign Ministry condemned a recent spate of attacks by militants in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. A series of coordinated attacks from 31 January in more than ten cities left 30 civilians and around 18 security personnel dead. Subsequent battles killed more than 150 fighters.

The Chinese government has announced wide-ranging plans to build up its reserves of both mineral and agricultural commodities. The move comes as the Trump administration announced its Project Vault, a plan to stockpile supplies of critical minerals, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, ...

The United States is moving to build new stockpiles of critical minerals as part of an effort aimed at countering China’s dominance over supply chains that run through Africa and other parts of the Global South and underpin clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and defense industries. ...