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The controversial Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has withdrawn from a loan deal with a U.S. government agency for a port terminal in Sri Lanka, aimed at expanding operations at the country’s Colombo port while countering Chinese influence in the region. Adani was ...

China Signals Optimism on Rebuilding Ties with India

China is beaming friendliness to its massive neighbor across the Himalayas following recent high-level meetings between Indian and Chinese officials. The newest was a discussion between Liu Jianchao, the Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, and India’s ambassador to China, Pradeep ...

The Global South is Becoming More Central to China’s Trade

While China’s trade data this month was largely gloomy, it also reflected interesting shifts. A breakdown of the data published by the Chinese publication Guancha showed that trade with key parts of the Global South is trending upwards. For example, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is currently ...

China Will Keep Driving Global Growth: Xi

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will keep powering global economic expansion and that the country will meet its 5% GDP growth target. The comments come a day after the CPC politburo announced the first monetary easing in fourteen years to boost ...

Malaysia is Becoming More Mandarin-Speaking

The enrollment of non-Chinese students in Chinese-language schools in Malaysia is reportedly increasing rapidly, partly because employers are increasingly favoring speakers of Mandarin, according to a new report by the Singaporean publication Fulcrum. While numbers aren’t officially recorded, there are indications that this trend is expanding in line ...

Nvidia Teams Up With Vietnam on AI Amid U.S.-China Tensions

Nvidia, the U.S. maker of advanced computer chips, signed an agreement to set up an advanced research and development center dedicated to artificial intelligence in Vietnam. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said in a statement: “We are delighted to open ...

Biden Administration Grabs Last Chance to Push Debt Trap Narrative

U.S. President Joe Biden argued on Wednesday that the United States is striving to be a qualitatively different investor from China in Africa. In making this case, administration officials couldn’t resist one last reference to a meme cherished by Democrats and ...

Another Myanmar Militia Declares Ceasefire

A second major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar has announced a unilateral halt in its fighting with the country’s ruling military junta. Tuesday’s announcement by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) came a week after a similar announcement by the Ta’ang ...

Nepal Signs Belt and Road Deal

The Nepalese government announced on Wednesday that it signed a framework agreement with China on the Belt and Road Initiative. Kathmandu signed an initial BRI agreement in 2017, but projects have not progressed so far. The new agreement paves the way ...

India Signals Readiness to Further Normalize Ties with China

India and China can focus on “other aspects” of their relationship following the pullback of troops from two friction points along their border. This was the main takeaway from an address to the Indian parliament by External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Mauritius PM Calls for Review of Chagos Islands Deal

Navin Rangoolam, the newly inaugurated Prime Minister of Mauritius, said he wants an independent review of a draft agreement with the United Kingdom about control of the Chagos Islands. The agreement returns the sovereignty of the small Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius, ...

Myanmar Rebel Army Willing to Talk with Junta Amid Pressure from China

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA,) one of a coalition of ethnic minority armies fighting Myanmar’s ruling military junta, signaled it wants to start peace talks. The Shan state-based militia announced its willingness to enter negotiations in a statement on Monday. Two ...
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