Category: Development

Emirates, the flagship carrier of the United Arab Emirates, last week began daily service between Dubai and Shenzhen, the southern Chinese technology hub. The route marks the airline’s first new destination in China in nearly a decade. Next month, Emirates is ...

The Trump administration has reportedly suspended a regulation that compelled companies to seek government licenses to sell chip design software to China. The U.S. Commerce Department reportedly informed three key providers of chip design software – Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Siemens – that government licenses to do ...

With a tightening fiscal clock and the weight of geopolitical balancing on his shoulders, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa touched down in China last week with more than just a forum appearance on his agenda. His trip to the 2025 Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin doubled as a ...

Egypt has signed a deal with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. for a $658 million industrial complex that will focus on the production of phosphoric acid. The plant will use locally extracted phosphate ore.

By Rebecca Ray In 2024, China extended $6.1 billion in 20 commitments in public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) loans, according to a new update to the China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy ...

By Ali Bekhtaoui and Nick Perry The Asian Development Bank was trying "very hard" to accommodate U.S. concerns over lending to China, the bank's president told AFP, including by slashing loans to the world's second-largest economy.

A top official from the Chinese Communist Party's influential Central Party School visited Nigeria last week as part of a broader effort to deepen the CPC's ties in the region. Party School Vice President Gong Weibin met with Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe, head ...

Borrowers in Africa and other developing regions are expected to repay $35 billion of Chinese loans this year, with two-thirds of the amount coming from the world's poorest countries. Many of these debts were taken out in the mid-2010s and are ...

The Taiwanese tech company Foxconn, a major assembler of Apple products, received approval from Taiwan’s regulator for a $2.2 billion investment in facilities in India and the U.S. The Department of Investment Review in Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs also approved a $1.49 billion investment in a subsidiary ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko signed a deal aimed at transforming his country’s public transport sector during his state visit to China. The deal would see the establishment of an industrial assembly facility that will produce gas and electric buses. It aims to replace 40,000 diesel buses. ...

New Zealand has paused $18.2 million in development aid to the Cook Islands because of a recent cooperation agreement with China. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is on an official visit to Beijing this week, said the small state didn’t consult New Zealand about the “breadth and ...

New Zealand's government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China. New Zealand "paused" the payments and would not resume them until the Cook Islands took ...