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Why China’s Global South Diplomacy Is Such a Challenge for the United States
Remember when poor countries didn’t matter? Those halcyon days when an American president could call them shitholes and nobody would mind? Those days have just ended. In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal broke a story in June that ...
A New Chapter of ‘Going out’ in the Making?
By Lukas Fiala Walking through the halls at the Paris Air Show, the world’s largest aerospace exhibition, last week demonstrated once more the emergence of a novel chapter of China’s global outreach: high-tech aeronautics and aerospace cooperation. From the Aviation Industry ...
A Chinese-Backed Solar Project in Lesotho Highlights Beijing’s New “Small is Beautiful” Infrastructure Development Strategy in Africa
Some 71 kilometers south of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, the new Mafeteng Solar Power Plant Project generates some 30MW of electricity that could easily power 30,000 homes running household appliances like a fridge, a TV, an electric cooker and a number of lights while also supporting some ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Mutual Expulsions of Indian and Chinese Reporters Almost Complete
The mutual expulsions of Indian and Chinese reporters are now almost complete. The last Chinese journalist in India, a reporter for Xinhua, was expelled last week, leaving just one reporter from the Press Trust of India still in China as the only remaining Indian foreign correspondent.
China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo Kicks Off in Hunan
The biggest annual event in Africa-China trade kicks off in Changsha, Hunan Province, on Thursday, running until July 2. The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo is notable for two key reasons. First, it signals the full resumption of Africa-China trade relations ...
Sri Lanka Gets Relief from World Bank as FM Walks a Careful China Line
The World Bank announced $700 million in budgetary and welfare support to Sri Lanka on Thursday. The news comes as Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry met with China’s Finance Minister Liu Kun and Exim Bank chair Wu Fulin to discuss China’s central role in his country’s debt restructuring. ...
Backgrounder: China’s Emerging Playbook in South Asia
China’s outsized role in two key South Asian debt crises (Sri Lanka and Pakistan) and its fractious cross-border relationship with India have overshadowed a larger trend: Beijing is increasingly becoming an adept navigator of South Asian complexities in order to grow its own influence in the region.
Reflecting On China-Cambodia’s Dara Sakor Project, 15 Years In
It was 2008 when the Cambodian government appointed the Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG), a subsidiary of Wanlong Group based in Tianjin, to build a $3.8 billion mega project in Dara Sakor. UDG was equipped with a 99-year lease and was ...
Southeast Asia Inches Closer to China to Survive Harsh Heat Waves
Extreme high temperatures — a ‘once-in-200-years heat wave’ — have been hitting many Asian countries in recent weeks, including those in Southeast Asia. Experts said that it is only the beginning of an era that will see more frequent heat waves and other erratic weather.
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Visit to China Widely Seen as a Message for Joe Biden
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday he will travel to Beijing next month to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Prime Minister's office batted away arguments in the Israeli media that the visit is intended to pique the White House ...
Netanyahu Visit to China is Strategic Mistake, Says Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief
One of Israel's most decorated former generals, Amos Yadlin, warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his planned visit to China is a strategic mistake that risks damaging the Jewish state's far more important ties with the United States. Yadlin, who is ...
Netanyahu May be Going to China to Boost His Political Standing at Home, Says Israeli Scholar
The political calculations that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made in agreeing to accept President Xi Jinping's invitation to visit may be far more nuanced than the prevailing narratives in the Israeli and U.S. media, which largely frame it around annoying Joe Biden.