Category: Development

By Lukas Fiala With Europe scrambling to adjust to a world in rapid transition, two key events will shape the continent’s ability to sustain competition with China across the Global South. The first was exemplified by Germany’s election last Sunday, which ...

A Chinese company will help construct a road bridge in Tajikistan set to become Central Asia's longest, an official said Wednesday, as Beijing expands its influence in the ex-Soviet region. The bridge across the Surkhob river in central Tajikistan will be ...

Panama's attorney general said Wednesday that a concession granted to a Hong Kong-based firm to operate ports on either end of the Panama Canal should be scrapped because it is "unconstitutional." The contract held by CK Hutchison Holdings, owned by Hong ...

The Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) will take full operating control of the Standard Gauge Railway in December 2025, six months past the original deadline, from a Chinese state-owned firm that currently runs the line. It was always part of the plan ...

By Felix Brender 王哲謙 At this year’s Munich Security Conference, the U.S. put on such an antagonistic performance that China barely had to lift a finger to win brownie points. All Beijing had to do was sit back, radiate calm, and ...

U.S. participation in the Lobito Corridor project that aims to challenge China's dominance of African critical resource supply chains is now in jeopardy due to the Trump administration's decision this month to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). ...

Donald Trump's foreign aid freeze has halted vital projects in the South Pacific, aid workers, and analysts say, risking lives and hurting U.S. efforts to woo the region. Disaster-prone, isolated, and threatened by rising seas, tropical Pacific island states are some ...

By Alice Philipson and Lam Nguyen Vietnam's parliament on Wednesday approved plans for an $8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.

Mark Brown, the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China’s Premier Li Qiang on Saturday. This will cause further concern in New Zealand, with whom the Cook Islands has a constitutional link. The agreement ...

The Chinese government will give $4.4 million to advance the clearance of landmines in Cambodia. This follows the freeze in USAID funding dedicated to removing landmines left from the Vietnam War era. Cambodia is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.

The Vietnamese government plans to use local resources and Chinese loans to finance a $7.7 billion, 403-kilometer railway project linking it to China. The Lao Cai-Hai Phong railway will connect to Hanoi and China’s Kunming. According to a pre-feasibility study submitted to the government by the Minister of Transport, ...

By Shaun Tandon When President Donald Trump froze nearly all U.S. foreign aid, Cambodia was forced to suspend workers removing dangerous mines from the country  -- until China stepped in with the necessary funding. In ...