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Tiktok Seeks Brazil Fintech License to Offer Credit

Social media platform TikTok, controlled by China's ByteDance, is seeking approval from the Brazilian central bank to operate as a lending and payments fintech, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The sources, who requested anonymity because the plans are confidential, ...

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China Halts Fertilizer Exports

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U.S. Frets Over Potential Chinese Role in Brazil’s Santos Port

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Latin America Split Over How to Counter China’s Steel Surge

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The Strait Test: How the Hormuz Crisis Reframed China’s Energy Offer for SE Asia
Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
The Two Sessions, China’s most important annual political gathering, where leaders unveil economic targets and policy priorities, closed in Beijing earlier this month just as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was intensifying. The timing was not coincidental. The 15th Five-Year Plan had been in ...
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