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Philippines Says China Coast Guard Fired Water Cannon, ‘Sideswiped’ Govt Vessel

Aerial view of a China Coast Guard vessel firing a water cannon on a Philippines ship near the contested Scarborough Shoal on December 4, 2024. Image via the Philippines National Task Force of the West Philippine Sea.
The Philippines said the China Coast Guard fired a water cannon and “sideswiped” a government vessel Wednesday during a maritime patrol near the disputed Scarborough Shoal after Beijing said it had “exercised control” over the ...
by Agence France-Presse

China’s Xi Vows to Deepen Infrastructure Cooperation With Nepal: State Media

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli in Beijing on December 3, 2024. Images via Xinhua.
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday told Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli that China will offer more support to develop the country’s infrastructure, Chinese state media reported. The leader of the Himalayan ...
by Agence France-Presse

Biden Announces $1 Billion for Africa During Maiden Trip

US President Joe Biden (L) talks during his bilateral meeting with Angola President Joao Lourenco (unseen) at the Presidential Palace in Luanda on December 3, 2024. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
By Aurélia End U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced more than $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to Africa during a visit to Angola, where the United States is showcasing a major infrastructure ...
by Agence France-Presse

Mauritius PM Calls for Review of Chagos Islands Deal

A file photo from 2001 showing a U.S. Air Force B-1B aircraft taking off from the UK/U.S. base on Diego Garcia for a bombing run over Afghanistan. Image: Department of Defense / AFP
Navin Rangoolam, the newly inaugurated Prime Minister of Mauritius, said he wants an independent review of a draft agreement with the United Kingdom about control of the Chagos Islands. The agreement returns the ...
by Cobus van Staden

Nepal PM Kicks off China Visit Eyeing Investment Deals

Nepal's prime minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (2L) waves alongside his wife Radhika Shakya (L) before his departure, at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu on December 2, 2024. Nepal's prime minister left on December 2, for his first bilateral visit to China, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic's leaders of making India their first official destination. (Photo by Aryan DHIMAL / AFP)
Nepal’s prime minister was in Beijing on Tuesday to meet Chinese leaders, seeking to expand infrastructure cooperation after breaking with the longstanding tradition of new leaders making their first official visit to neighboring ...
by Agence France-Presse

Taiwan’s Lai Kicks off Marshall Islands Visit as China Fumes

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te delivers his speech at Parliament in Majuro in the Marshall Islands on December 3, 2024. Lai arrived in the Marshall Islands, after visiting the United States on the first stop of a Pacific tour that has angered Chinese leaders. (Photo by Akio WANG / AFP)
By Akio WANG Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te arrived in the Marshall Islands on Tuesday after visiting the United States at the first stop of a Pacific tour that angered Chinese leaders.
by Agence France-Presse

China Will Be on Everyone’s Mind When Biden Visits Angola This Week

U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on December 1, 2024, en route to Angola. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
Joe Biden boarded Air Force One late Sunday night, bound for West Africa in what will likely be the outgoing U.S. president’s final overseas trip before he leaves office next month. The President ...
by Eric Olander

Lourenço Says He Would Not Take a Another Resource-for-Infrastructure Deal With China

Angolan President João Lourenço looks on during the commemorate session at the Belem Cultural Center to celebrate the Carnation Revolution's 50th anniversary in Lisbon on April 25, 2024. FILIPE AMORIM / AFP
Over a twenty-year period beginning in 2002, Angola borrowed a staggering $45 billion from China, accounting for a third of all Chinese lending on the continent. The Angolan government still owes Chinese creditors ...
by Eric Olander

QatarEnergy Inks Gas Supply Deal for China With Shell

Artur Widak / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP
Qatar has agreed to supply three million tonnes of gas a year to China in a deal with London-headquartered energy giant Shell, the emirate’s state energy company said on Monday. The liquefied natural ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Accuses Philippine Ships of ‘Illegally Gathering’ at Disputed Reef

File image of China Coast Guard spokesperson Liu Dejun. Image via the China Coast Guard.
China on Monday said it had taken “control measures” against Philippine ships it accused of “illegally gathering” near a disputed reef in the South China Sea. “Recently, several Philippine ships… illegally gathered under ...
by Agence France-Presse

Indonesia Still Does Not Recognize China’s Sea Claims: Minister

Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiano during a meeting with Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on November 19, 2024. Image via @Kemlu_RI.
Indonesia still does not recognize Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Sugiono said Monday, seeking to dismiss concerns that a recent joint statement with China could jeopardize its sovereignty. The ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Says Supports Syria in Efforts to Restore ‘Stability’

An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after jihadists and their allies entered the northern Syrian city, on November 30, 2024. Mohammed AL-RIFAI / AFP
China on Monday said it “supports Syria’s efforts to maintain national security and stability” after a shock rebel offensive saw government forces lose control of Aleppo. “China is willing to make positive efforts ...
by Agence France-Presse

Malaysia Warns Chinese Firms: Don’t Use Us to Dodge U.S. Tariffs

A semiconductor wafer is under process at a semiconductor chip factory in Binzhou, in eastern China's Shandong province on June 4, 2024. (Photo by AFP) CHINA OUT
Malaysia urged Chinese companies to avoid using the country as a base to evade U.S. tariffs. “Over the past year or so… I have been advising many businesses from China not to invest in ...
by Edwin Shri Bimo

Philippine President Says Russian Submarine Spotted in South China Sea is ‘Worrisome’

Aerial view of a Russian attack submarine that reportedly surfaced within the Philippines' territorial waters on November 30, 2024. Image via the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Monday described as “very worrisome” the presence of a Russian attack submarine off the country’s coast in the disputed South China Sea. The UFA 490 submarine was spotted ...
by Agence France-Presse

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

Eye-Rolling Through the Apocalypse

November’s COP30 gathering in Belém, Brazil, marks three decades since COP1 in Berlin in 1995, and raises a sobering reminder of how deep we’ve sunk into a climate morass of our own making amid non-stop warnings. The evacuation of millions of people and the deaths of at least seventeen due to Typhoon Ragasa’s rampage through the Philippines, Taiwan, and China couldn’t have been more pointedly timed as U.S. and Chinese ...

Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on BRICS Countries Over Currency Plans

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations if they undercut the U.S. dollar. “We require a commitment… that they will neither create a ...
by Agence France-Presse

Nepal PM to Make Official Visit to China

File image of Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli. Rojan Shrestha / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP
Nepal’s premier will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said Friday, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic’s leaders of making India their first official destination. Khadga Prasad Sharma ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Manufacturing Expands for Second Straight Month

Workers work on the production line at the production workshop of Qingdao Wushun Auto Mold Parts Co., LTD., in West Coast New Area, Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on November 28, 2024. CFOTO / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP
China saw an uptick in industrial output for the second straight month in November, government data showed Saturday, an encouraging sign for officials as they battle stagnant activity. Beijing has, in recent weeks, ...
by Agence France-Presse

Taiwan’s Lai Kicks off Pacific Tour With U.S. Stop in Hawaii

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te tours the Bishop Museum grounds with the museum director Dee Jay Mailer in Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 30, 2024. Ronen ZILBERMAN / AFP
By Akio Wang Taiwan President Lai Ching-te arrived Saturday in the United States for the start of a week-long tour in the Pacific that he said would usher in a new era of ...
by Agence France-Presse

WEEK IN REVIEW: China Defense Minister Dong Jun Faces Corruption Investigation

China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 11th Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on September 13, 2024. ADEK BERRY / AFP
Singapore’s Senior Minister and former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong began a six-day visit to China on Monday that will include meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit, Lee’s first since stepping down ...
by Eric Olander

Chinese Military Sends ‘Patrols’ Around Contested South China Sea Shoal

AFP
Beijing said on Thursday that it was conducting air and naval patrols around a contested shoal in the South China Sea to “resolutely defend” its national sovereignty. The so-called “combat readiness patrols” were ...
by Agence France-Presse

Myanmar Rebel Army Willing to Talk with Junta Amid Pressure from China

Photo showing members of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army in November 2024. Image: AFP.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA,) one of a coalition of ethnic minority armies fighting Myanmar’s ruling military junta, signaled it wants to start peace talks. The Shan state-based militia announced its willingness ...
by Cobus van Staden

China Says ‘Welcomes’ Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon

A man sits in front of the rubble of a mosque in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit on November 27, 2024, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
China said Wednesday it welcomed a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon after more than a year of fighting that has killed thousands. “China is paying close attention to the current ...
by Agence France-Presse

Bolivia Announces $1 Billion Deal With CATL Unit to Build Lithium Plants

The headquarters building of Chinese EV battery giant CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited) in Ningde, in southeast China's Fujian province on November 15, 2024. GREG BAKER / AFP
Bolivia said Tuesday it had signed a $1 billion deal with China’s CBC, a subsidiary of the world’s largest lithium battery producer CATL, to build two lithium carbonate production plants in the country’s ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Pulls Taliban Deeper into Central Asian Fold

Ummat Radio is an Afghan media outlet. The image shows China's special envoy for Afghan affairs, Yue Xiaoyong.
China’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, met with the Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and the acting Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid. The meeting was confirmed by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning ...
by Cobus van Staden

Mexico Pivots as Trump Announces Tariffs

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a SpaceX rocket launch on 19 November. Image: Brandon Bell / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump promised to impose 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada and an “additional” 10% on Chinese imports as a response to irregular border crossings and drug trafficking. ...
by Cobus van Staden

Mexico Not a Backdoor for Chinese Products, President Sheinbaum Says

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Eyepix/NurPhoto via AFP
Chinese products are not entering the United States and Canada through Mexico, the president of the Latin American nation said on Friday, and the government will make that clear in upcoming trade meetings. ...
by Eric Olander

Mounting Concerns in Cambodia Chinese Funding for Controversial Canal May Fall Through

Excavators are used to dig the Funan Techo canal along the Prek Takeo channel in Cambodia's Kandal province. TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP
When construction of Cambodia’s $1.7 billion Funan Techo canal got underway in August, Prime Minister Hun Manet confidently assured everyone that Chinese funding for the project would come through. Now, though, there are mounting ...
by Eric Olander

China’s Future Role in Zimbabwe Power Plant Uncertain Amid Debt Crisis

Smoke billows from the cooling tower at the coal fired power-generator on August 03, 2023, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zinyange Auntony / AFP
Zimbabwe’s business community is sounding the alarm over the prospect that one of the country’s largest sources of electricity could be shuttered due to its failure to repay debts to Chinese creditors. Zimbabwe ...
by Eric Olander

New Geopolitical Landscape Explains Why Xi Made Unannounced Stopover in Morocco

Chinese President Xi Jinping was greeted at the airport in Casablanca by Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan on November 21, 2024. Image via Xinhua.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived back in Beijing on Saturday after a week-long trip to South America to attend a pair of summits in Brazil and Peru. On his way home, Xi made ...
by Eric Olander

Developing Nations Slam ‘Paltry’ $300 Billion Climate Deal

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev speaks at a first closing plenary of the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku on November 23, 2024. AFP
By Nick Perry, Laurent Thomet and Shaun Tandon The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday, but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year ...
by Agence France-Presse
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