Category: Geopolitics

U.S. President Joe Biden was supposed to be in Angola this week, fulfilling a pledge to visit the continent he made back at the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. But with massive hurricanes pounding the southern United States, the president was forced ...

Mixed economic messages from Beijing and complex geopolitics are complicating global minerals and commodities trade. As Chinese markets reopened after last week’s holiday, iron ore prices slid back from a five-year high as the market reevaluated stimulus measures announced last week. Investors ...

By Saniya Kulkarni In what has turned out to be the closest election in the history of Sri Lankan politics, left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake has unseated Ranil Wickremesinghe to become the island country’s eighth president, also 

India and China's border dispute has been resolved by three-quarters, said Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. This is the latest signal of subtle shifts in one of the world’s most momentous geopolitical relationships. While the relationship has long been contentious, 

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president on Monday, after winning a rare second-round election over the weekend. The Marxist-leaning leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People’s Liberation Front) party won on a ticket of economic reconstruction ...

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman met on Wednesday with visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang to discuss bilateral ties, Saudi state media said. Riyadh was Li's first stop in a regional Gulf trip that will also ...

China is the "biggest disruptor" of peace in Southeast Asia, the Philippine defense chief said Tuesday, as tensions between Manila and Beijing over disputed reefs and waters in the South China Sea escalate. Gilberto Teodoro made the remarks at a conference ...

The top summit for Pacific island nations opened Monday in the Kingdom of Tonga, drawing global attention to the region's climate plight and its role in an unfolding great power rivalry. Melodic Tongan choir singers and dancing school children in traditional ...

It's been four years since China and Iran signed the 25-year, $400 billion strategic cooperation agreement that has yet to get off the ground. That lack of progress in implementing the deal topped the agenda this week during a meeting between Samad ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to strengthen ties with Fiji in a world beset with "turmoil" as he met the Pacific island's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Beijing on Tuesday. China has stepped up its courtship of South Pacific nations in ...

Vietnam's new top leader, Tô Lâm, met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, his first overseas trip since being named General Secretary of the country's Communist Party. Xi welcomed Lâm with a military parade outside the Great Hall of ...

Kiribati's pro-China president retained his parliamentary seat in a landslide, according to the first results on Thursday of an election that hinged on worries about the cost of living, rising sea levels, and closer ties with Beijing. Results posted by the ...