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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 ...
China FM Slams ‘Indiscriminate Attacks’ on Civilians in Talks With Lebanese Counterpart
China's top diplomat Wang Yi expressed support for Lebanon and condemned what he termed "indiscriminate attacks against civilians," Beijing's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Meeting his Lebanese counterpart in New York, Wang said: "We pay close attention to developments in the ...
Pulling China In: The Political Goals and Project Needs Behind Latin America’s Loans From China
By Zara C. Albright Since Latin American countries began borrowing from China’s development finance institutions (DFIs) nearly two decades ago, loans from the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) have played a significant role in ...
Chinese Supply Surge Pushes Cobalt Prices to Lowest Point for the Year
Prices for cobalt, a critical resource used to manufacture electric vehicle batteries, touched an eight year low on Friday before recovering a bit to close at the lowest point in 2024. The market is flooded with the blue metal due to ...
China’s Ambassador to India Provides New Signals Beijing is Seeking to De-Escalate Tensions With New Delhi
Chinese Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, issued what appears to be Beijing's latest effort to de-escalate tensions with New Delhi during a keynote address that he delivered late last week in the Indian capital. We should promote the political settlement of ...
China Urges Citizens in Israel to Leave ‘as Soon as Possible’
China has urged its citizens in Israel to leave "as soon as possible" as tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah escalate. "Currently, the situation along the Israel-Lebanon border is extremely tense, with frequent military conflicts," China's embassy in ...
Xi Says Wants to Deepen BRI Cooperation With Sri Lanka Under New Leader
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said he hoped to broaden cooperation with Sri Lanka under his Belt and Road Infrastructure Initiative (BRI) as he congratulated the island nation's new leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka. Dissanayaka, a self-avowed Marxist, took his oath ...
Cambodia Has Not Tilted Away from China
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Discontent Shadows Kenya’s Biggest Chinese-Funded Solar Power Project
Although the community initially agreed to the plant and were paid for their land, Abdi says that without the other promised benefits, they now regret their decision.
China Space at Istiqlal Mosque: Stepping Up Muslim Diplomacy in Indonesia
This article is co-authored by Yeta Purnama, a researcher at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at CELIOS. On September 5, 2024, the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia launched what it ...
How the BRI Undermined Beijing’s Bid to Revive Globalization
By Lukas Fiala Last week’s Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong served as a reminder of the conflicted ongoing legacy of the BRI over a decade after its initiation. When first articulated as a strategic vision to connect China with ...
[WEEK IN REVIEW] Illegal Chinese Miners in Ghana Have Been Warned
China's new ambassador to Ghana, Tong Defa, spoke out forcefully this week to condemn the ongoing problem of illegal mining in the country and issued a fresh warning to his compatriots that if they are caught breaking the law, the embassy ...