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After nearly two years of painful, drawn-out negotiations, Zambia finally closed a deal to restructure its bilateral external debt. The announcement was made last week at a global development finance summit in Paris and the new agreement is widely seen as ...
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.
Lots of Handshakes, Smiles and an Aircraft Carrier Framed Vietnam PM’s Visit to China
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính wrapped up a jam-packed three-day visit to China on Tuesday with a meeting with President Xi Jinping while a giant U.S. aircraft carrier was docked back home near the central city of Da Nang. Vietnam's ...
Sri Lankan President Upbeat About Debt Deal Amid Geopolitical Pressure
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe confirmed that Sri Lanka plans to announce a plan to deal with its domestic debt this week, in line with IMF benchmarks. In an interview with France24, he dismissed fears that China is delaying the process, after Chinese creditors didn’t join official debt talks in April. ...
A Primer on the Escalating Tensions in the South China Sea
The South China Sea is one of the world's most strategically vital maritime zones where more than $5 trillion of trade passes through each year -- a whopping 60% of the globe's total maritime commerce. It's also the epicenter of an ...
Hichilema Refutes Western Accusations China Was to Blame for Delays in Zambia’s Debt Restructuring
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema rejected longstanding accusations by Western governments and institutions that China was to blame for how long it took to reach a debt restructuring agreement. The president told Bloomberg TV after the deal was announced on Friday in ...
Vietnam PM Arrives in China for Visit as a U.S. Aircraft Carrier Arrives
Vietnam's legendary great power hedging strategy was on full display this weekend when the massive U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan arrived in the central city of Da Nang for a rare port of call -- in fact, only the third time that a U.S. aircraft carrier has docked ...
U.S. Insists Modi’s Visit Wasn’t About China… Except That It Was
The United States rejected suggestions that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's three day visit to the United States last week was about leveraging New Delhi in Washington's rivalry against China. Although China was on the agenda in talks between Modi and ...
WSJ: China Negotiating With Cuba to Set up Joint Military Training Base
China is reportedly in talks with Cuba to set up a joint military base that could potentially lead to the deployment of PLA soldiers within a couple of hundred kilometers of the United States, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. ...
Indian PM Modi Arrives in the U.S., China Expected to be High on the Agenda in Talks With Biden
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New York on Tuesday for a quick stopover before heading to Washington for a high-profile state visit that will include talks with U.S. President Joe Biden. Modi signaled just before he left that China will ...