Category: Development

As the United States continues its efforts to counter China’s growing influence across the Global South, recent budget cuts from the Trump administration—and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk—have delivered a major blow to USAID and now threaten American diplomacy more broadly. ...

The Chinese authorities are reportedly telling state-owned enterprises to pause new business with companies linked to Li Ka-Shing and his family, the latest signal that Beijing is unhappy with the decision by Li’s CK Hutchison Holdings to sell two strategic ports in Panama to a U.S. consortium—part of ...

Beijing authorities kept up their pressure on CK Hutchison on Wednesday, resuming criticism of the Hong Kong conglomerate's sale of its Panama Canal ports. The business empire built by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing offloaded its global ports business outside China this ...

By Julie Radomski The hydroelectric megaproject Coca Codo Sinclair is among Latin America's most controversial Chinese-financed and constructed infrastructure projects. Although officially inaugurated in 2016, the dam has not yet been formally handed over to the Ecuadorian government — but this ...

Japan, South Korea, and China agreed Saturday that peace on the Korean Peninsula was a shared responsibility, according to Seoul’s foreign minister. The three countries' top diplomats met in Tokyo and pledged to increase cooperation, deepen trade ties, and restated their goal of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. ...

China’s homegrown C919 passenger jet is accelerating production in a bold challenge to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly, ramping up capacity amid Beijing’s broader push for aviation self-sufficiency. However, while the jet is proving reliable in domestic operations, global expansion ...

Reuters reports that the Trump administration’s proposed fees on Chinese-made ships are starting to affect U.S. exports. U.S. coal and agricultural products are accumulating as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad. The administration has plans to impose levies of up to $1.5 million on Chinese-made ...

By Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali The once-pristine white oil tanks of Sudan's largest refinery have been blackened by nearly two years of devastating war, leaving the country heavily dependent on fuel imports it can ill afford.

By Felix Brender 王哲謙 If former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson thought a week was a long time in politics, a single day in Trump’s America now feels like a political eon. This column was originally meant to dissect the implications of ...

Chinese authorities are probing the recently announced sale of ports in Panama by the Hong Kong company CK Hutchison Holdings. Several agencies, including the State Administration of Market Regulation, are reportedly scrutinizing the deal for possible security breaches or antitrust violations. This follows U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Hong Kong leader John Lee on Tuesday said criticism of city conglomerate CK Hutchison's sale of its Panama Canal ports deserved "serious attention", after Beijing authorities repeatedly slammed the deal. The business empire of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, sold ...

Cambodia will inaugurate a Chinese-renovated naval base next month, an army spokesman said Tuesday, with a Japanese warship expected to be the first to dock at the site that has drawn concerns from the United States. Washington has said the Ream ...