Category: View From China

China’s Border Robot Highlights Industrial and Tech Edge Over India

A video recently went viral on YouTube showing a lone Chinese robot standing guard at a remote border post in Tibet. Captured by Indian troops along the western section of the China-India Line of Actual Control (LAC), the footage was intended to showcase India’s high-ground advantage. Instead, ...

U.S.–Venezuela Case Cannot Be Applied to Taiwan, Chinese Scholar Says

“If the United States can do this to a sovereign country, why can’t the mainland do the same to Taiwan?” Screenshots of the Facebook post by Ross Feingold, the former Asia-Pacific chair of the U.S. Republican Party, circulated widely alongside short video clips of Shen Yi, a ...

China’s Long Bet on Sudanese Oil Comes to an End

China and Sudan’s three-decade-long “oil diplomacy” has completely collapsed, a Chinese think tank said, after the leading state-owned oil firm China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) officially withdrew from its final complex in the African oil-rich but war-torn nation. The think tank ...

Chinese Social Media Mocks India’s ‘Semiconductor’ Stock Mania

Chinese social media has been buzzing with disbelief and humor over India’s latest stock market frenzy, RRP Semiconductor Ltd., a company whose skyrocketing stock is almost entirely divorced from its real operations. The share price of RRP Semiconductor has surged by an eye-popping 55,000 percent over ...

Bangladesh’s Eurofighter Move Is To Counter India’s Rafales, Not a Break With China

Bangladesh’s air force has quietly moved closer to acquiring one of Europe’s most advanced fighter jets. In recent days, Bangladesh and Italy’s Leonardo signed a letter of intent in Dhaka for the purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. While neither side disclosed numbers or pricing, outside estimates based ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

CGSP Take: How Does the Venezuela Crisis Affect China’s Relationship with the Global South?

By Cobus van Staden, CGSP Head of Research,
China has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela and its detention of President Nicolás Maduro. 

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Beyond the Scams Narrative, Chinese Entrepreneurs Bet on Cambodia

Cambodia is often portrayed in Chinese media as a place defined by gambling, fraud, and danger, but for a growing number of Chinese investors, it represents a blue-ocean market at an early stage of industrialization. A Caijing magazine feature examines ...

Thailand’s Resumed Border Strikes on Cambodia Highlight Limits of U.S. Pressure, Chinese Scholars Say

Thailand and Cambodia signed a joint peace declaration at the ASEAN summit in late October, aimed at ending long-standing border disputes. Yet, less than two months later, Thai forces launched strikes on casinos and hotels in Cambodia, reportedly linked to cross-border online fraud. Experts in China

Automakers Seem the Target in Mexico–China Tariffs, but Small Exporters Take the Hardest Hit

Most media coverage of Mexico’s new tariffs on Chinese goods has zeroed in on the obvious visible targets: automakers and auto parts, where duties climb as high as 50 percent. These sectors are capital-intensive, politically sensitive, and easy to frame as symbols of shifting trade policy.

Kidnapping of Chinese Influencer in South Africa Sparks Alarm Over “High-Profile Travel”

A kidnapping in South Africa has sent shockwaves through China’s internet, not only because a Chinese traveler was violently targeted, but because the scheme appears to have been orchestrated with help from a Chinese national. The victim, a top travel influencer with more than 26 million ...

Chile’s Rightward Shift Signals New Risks for China in Latin America, Chinese Commentator Says

As vote totals came in over the weekend in Chile's presidential run-off election, Chinese social media began to anticipate what José Antonia Kast's victory could mean for China. A WeChat account focusing on international affairs tried to analyze how Kast’s ...

Inside the Himalayas’ Last Living Trade Route

A recent in-depth feature published on the Guangzhou-based renowned newspaper Southern Weekly takes readers into Purang (Burang) on Tibet’s remote Ali Plateau, a tri-border junction between China, Nepal, and India, where one of the Himalayas’ oldest trading systems is still alive. And timing matters: 2026 will ...

U.S. Mineral-Driven Intervention in Congo Creates Fragile Peace, Chinese Commentator Says

As the United States inserted itself into Congo’s decades-long conflict, a Chinese WeChat commentator dissects the real motivations behind Washington’s diplomacy and why the so-called peace may be more fragile than it seems.  Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President ...
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