Category: Diplomacy

China Hands Over Ecuador’s Coca Codo Dam as Defects and Risks Remain Unresolved

By Julie Radomski Ten years after the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam first came online, the Chinese state-owned construction company Sinohydro Corporation finally turned the project over to the Ecuadorian state last Friday.  Yet Ecuador only agreed to accept it ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

The Emerging China-Global South Energy Nexus

This month brought quietly momentous news: for the first time ever, the world’s share of renewable energy surpassed that generated by burning coal. 
China is one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal and is therefore partly responsible for bringing us to our current carbon crisis. 

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China Holds Live-Fire Drills in Waters Near Philippines’ Luzon Island

China's military said on Friday it recently conducted military drills including live-fire exercises in the waters east of the Philippines' Luzon Island, calling it "a necessary operation" in response to the current regional situation. The military made its announcement as over ...

China Rejects U.S. Criticism of Pressure on Taiwan Flight Permit

China's foreign ministry on Thursday said it firmly opposes Washington's criticism of Chinese pressure on some African countries to revoke overflight clearances for Taiwan's president. Taiwan this week said the Seychelles, Mauritius and ​Madagascar unilaterally revoked flight permits for its presidential aircraft to cross ...

China Urges Further Build-up on Islands Amid Territorial Disputes

China said on Wednesday it will further build up more than 11,000 islands it calls its own, so as to better govern them, in a long-term campaign to strengthen maritime power, secure more natural resources, and reinforce territorial claims. China has built artificial ...

Taiwan Minister Makes Rare Visit to South China Sea Island for Drills

Taiwan's minister in charge of the coast guard has made a rare visit to a Taiwan-controlled island in the South China Sea for exercises, including practicing the armed boarding of a suspicious ship. Taiwan and China claim sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, and Taiwan has control of ...

China Denies U.S.-Detained Ship in Middle East Contained ‘Gift’ for Iran

China on Wednesday again denied that a ship intercepted by the United States contained a "gift" from Beijing for Iran, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump made the accusation. Trump had said that an Iranian-flagged ship seized by U.S. ...

U.S. Slams China’s Pressure on African Countries to Block Taiwan President’s Trip

By Michael Martina The United States is concerned that several African countries revoked overflight clearances for Taiwan's president at China's behest, the State Department said on Wednesday, calling the incident an abuse of the international civil aviation system.

China Pressure Claim Derails Taiwan Leader’s Africa Trip

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has postponed a planned April 22–26 visit to eSwatini after three African countries—Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar—withdrew overflight clearance for his aircraft, according to Taiwan’s presidential office. Taipei said the permits were revoked without warning and blamed “intense ...

China Praises Blocking of Taiwan President’s Africa Trip, Taipei Defiant

By Ryan Woo and Ben Blanchard China heaped praise on Wednesday on three African countries that refused to let Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's aircraft fly over their territories, forcing him to cancel a trip to Eswatini, while Lai vowed ...

Fact Check: The China Debt-Relief Claim Behind Taiwan’s Scrapped Africa Trip

One of the interesting narratives to emerge from Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s cancelled trip to eSwatini is that China used economic coercion against African countries to help block the visit. Reuters reported that a senior Taiwan security official said China pressured Seychelles, ...

China Sends National Security Ministers to Phnom Penh for First 2+2 Security Talks

Two of China’s top ministers arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday for the first-ever China-Cambodia 2+2 strategic dialogue, a new format that brings together the countries’ foreign and defense ministers for high-level talks on security and diplomacy. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang ...

Chinese Navy Brushes Past Okinawa Islands After Japanese Transit in Taiwan Strait

China said a group of its naval vessels, including a destroyer, passed through a waterway between two islands administered by the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday as it returned home after testing far-seas capabilities. Vessel formation 133 dispatched by the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command has completed its ...

China Praises Nations Denying Overflight to Taiwan’s Lai Ching-Te, eSwatini Says Bilateral Relations Unchanged

By Ryan Woo and Ben Blanchard China heaped praise on Wednesday on three African countries that denied overflight permission for the aircraft of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, forcing him to cancel a trip to Eswatini, while Taipei denounced their "servitude" to Beijing. ...
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