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Pentagon Chief Warns China ‘Preparing’ to Use Military Force in Asia

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers an address at the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 31, 2025. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)
By Ty McCormick U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Saturday that China was “credibly preparing” to use military force to upend the balance of power in Asia, vowing the United States was ...
by Agence France-Presse

Macron Urges Asia, Europe to Unite to Resist ‘Spheres of Coercion’

France's President Emmanuel Macron gives the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 30, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
By Damon Wake and Francesco Fontemaggi French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged Europe and Asia to build a new alliance to hold off big powers seeking to build “spheres of coercion”, in a swipe ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Establishes Global Mediation Body in Hong Kong

A view of the International Organization For Mediation at the old Wanchai police station in Hong Kong on May 30, 2025. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)
China signed a convention on Friday establishing a global mediation body in Hong Kong, which aims to be comparable to organizations such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Beijing has taken a ...
by Agence France-Presse

WEEK IN REVIEW: Wang Yi Meets Over 50 African Envoys on Africa Day

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi looks on as he arrives to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Post Ministerial Conference with China in Vientiane on July 26, 2024. TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP
Brazilian prosecutors announced they are suing the Chinese carmaker BYD and two of its contractors for slave-like labor conditions. Prosecutors in Bahia state are seeking about $50 million in damages from BYD, China JinJiang ...
by CGSP Staff

Brazil Sues China’s BYD Over ‘Slavery’ Conditions on Build Site

Screenshots from a dormitory housing some of the 160 Chinese workers at BYD construction site that Brazilian authorities described as "slave like conditions." AFP
Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labor conditions at a build site, according to legal documents seen by AFP Thursday. ...
by Eric Olander

No Top Defense Officials in China Delegation at Key Summit

China's Defense Minister Dong Jun will not attend the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this week, Asia's top international defense forum. (Photo by Minh Hoang / POOL / AFP)
No top Chinese defense officials will attend a key regional summit in Singapore this week, Beijing said Thursday, despite ongoing tensions with the United States. The Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s top international defense forum, ...
by Agence France-Presse

China Says It Could Replace U.S. Funding in Colombia

China's ambassador to Colombia Zhu Jingyang. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)
China could step in to support infrastructure projects in Colombia if the United States withdraws funding, the country’s ambassador, Zhu Jingyang, said. In mid-May, the US Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said it ...
by CGSP Staff

China Offers Pacific Islands Climate, Development Cooperation

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) hosted envoys from the Pacific Islands Forum on 28 and 29 May. Image: Xinhua.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi focused on climate change and development cooperation during the China-Pacific Islands Forum ministerial meeting that took place on 28 and 29 May in Xiamen, Fujian Province. It was ...
by CGSP Staff

Indonesia, China Firms to Invest in EVs, Batteries, Data Centers

An electric vehicle production line at the Leapmotor factory in Jinhua, China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 18, 2024. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP)
Indonesia’s sovereign fund Danantara is coordinating with three to four unnamed Chinese companies to invest in EVs, batteries, and data centers, signaling a deepening of bilateral industrial alignment and an attempt to ...
by Edwin Shri Bimo

China–Indonesia Launch Investment Fund Plan

Exterior of the headquarters of Indonesia's new Danantara investment fund in Jakarata. Bay ISMOYO / AFP
China and Indonesia launch a sovereign investment alliance, proposing a China–ASEAN fund that may reshape the capital architecture of Southeast Asia, signaling a shift from infrastructure-led debt diplomacy to equity-driven economic realignment. ...
by Edwin Shri Bimo

Mango Deal Sweetens Ties Between Bangladesh and China

Bangladesh's Ministry of Commerce advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin (3L) and China's ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen (2R) inspect mango caskets during a ceremony at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on May 28, 2025. AFP
Bangladesh waved off its first consignment of mangoes to China on Wednesday, a largely symbolic export as Beijing seeks to sweeten ties after relations soured between Dhaka and its former ally and neighbor, ...
by Agence France-Presse

Peru Seeks Rail Meeting with China, Brazil

A 2024 file image shows children playing at the beach with the Chancay megaport cranes in the background. Photo by Cris BOURONCLE / AFP
Peru’s economic ministry said it is seeking a high-level meeting with counterparts in Brazil and China to take an ambitious plan to build a cross-continental railway to the next level. This follows a ...
by CGSP Staff

ASEAN Unveils Its Anti-Tariff Toolkit

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (C), China's Premier Li Qiang (R) and Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah (L) attend the ASEAN - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - China Summit in Kuala Lumpur on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP)
In a joint statement released on Monday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) repeated its rejection of current U.S. trade restrictions. The ten-country group listed the following countermeasures: Increase ...
by CGSP Staff

French President’s Southeast Asia Tour Draws Skepticism on Chinese Social Media

HEADLINE TRANSLATION: "Macron landed in Hanoi and immediately tried to stir the pot over the South China Sea—only to get completely owned a moment later."
Chinese netizens have been buzzing about French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Southeast Asia, where he aimed to offer Vietnam and other regional countries a “third option” beyond the U.S. and China. One article, ...
by Han Zhen

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

BRICS Announces Numerous New Initiatives

The BRICS group wrapped up its two-day leaders’ summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The summit’s final communique is a 16,000-word doorstop that covers numerous issues from economics to education.
The communique avoids any direct mention of the United States, and references to “unilateralism” and other coded criticism are also relatively scarce. Rather, the communique keeps the focus on the BRICS’ vision of the strengthening and reform of the global multilateral system ...

Chinese Netizens View Post-Assad Syria With Distrust and Geopolitical Alarm

A user generated discussion thread on the popular Chinese Q&A forum Zhihu asked "How many people in Syria will regret ousting Assad?"
Last week’s U.S. move to ease sanctions on Syria made headlines in China’s state media and reignited online discussion that began last December after Syria’s government collapsed. Chinese netizens voiced distrust of the new leadership, ...
by Han Zhen

China Not Trying to ‘Replace’ U.S. in Colombia: Ambassador

China's ambassador to Colombia Zhu Jingyang. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)
China is not seeking to “replace” the United States as the top trading partner of Colombia, Beijing’s ambassador to Bogota, whose president has announced a pivot to China, told AFP on Tuesday. Until ...
by Agence France-Presse

China, Indonesia Sign Broad Cooperation Agreements

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (L) and Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a welcome ceremony in Jakarta on 25 May 2025. Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP
Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signed memoranda of understanding this weekend, which could result in broad-based cooperation. They pledged to work together on boosting tourism, agricultural exports, traditional and ...
by CGSP Staff

Southeast Asia Engages China, Middle East in Landmark Summit

Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern leaders pose at the ASEAN gathering in Kuala Lumpur. Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is reaching out to China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain) to improve trade ties as it faces ongoing ...
by CGSP Staff

Macron Gives Vietnamese Students a Lesson in ‘Impulsive’ Superpowers

France's President Emmanuel Macron listens as PhD student Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tam asks a question during a visit to the University of Science and Technology in Hanoi on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
By Francesco Fontemaggi Between jabs at Donald Trump’s U.S. trade tariffs and criticism of Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea, French President Emmanuel Macron warned Vietnamese students Tuesday that “on the impulse ...
by Agence France-Presse

Canadian, Chinese Companies at Odds Over Impact of Seismic Activity on Congo Copper Mine

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kamoa-Kakula copper mine, co-owned by China’s Zijin Mining and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines, is at the center of a dispute following seismic activity that has temporarily halted underground operations. Zijin Mining ...
by Christian Geraud Neema Byamungu

China’s CMOC Group and Glencore Differ Over DR Congo’s Cobalt Export Ban

Cobalt hydroxide are stored in 500 kilogram sacks in the copper-cobalt Mutanda Mine, owned by Anglo-Swiss firm Glencore, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Emmet LIVINGSTONE / AFP)
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s leading producer of cobalt, has imposed a four-month ban on cobalt exports in an effort to curb market oversupply and stabilize falling prices. But the move ...
by Christian Geraud Neema Byamungu

Japan Says China Conducted Research Near Pacific Atoll

Japan has accused China of conducting unnotified maritime scientific research within its exclusive economic zone around its southernmost island in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo said Tuesday. The alleged activity took place on Monday ...
by Agence France-Presse

Developing Nations Face ‘Tidal Wave’ of China Debt: Report

The world’s poorest nations face a “tidal wave of debt” as repayments to China hit record highs in 2025, an Australian think tank warned Tuesday in a new report. China’s Belt and Road ...
by Agence France-Presse

China’s J-10CE Fighter Jet Getting Lots of Attention at Malaysia Weapons Show

Model of a J-10CE fighter jet on display at the 17th edition of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Langkawi, Malaysia. Image via Xinhua.
Sales representatives from the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC), maker of the newly popular J-10CE fighter jet, were especially busy last week at a major weapons exhibition in Malaysia. The J-10CE got a boost earlier this ...
by Eric Olander

Indonesia’s Prabowo Calls for Closer Ties With China While Signaling Drift From the United States

Indonesian President Subianto Prabowo delivered the keynote address at the Indonesia-China Business Reception on May 24, 2025 in Jakarta. Image via the Indonesian Presidency.
At a moment when many middle-power states are intentionally avoiding rhetoric that could draw their countries into the rivalry between the United States and China, Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto went the other way this ...
by Eric Olander

France’s Macron in Vietnam to Offer Third Way Between U.S., China

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Vietnam's President Luong Cuong review a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)
By Francesco Fontemaggi France’s Emmanuel Macron will hold talks Monday in Vietnam at the start of his Southeast Asia tour, an opportunity to test his “Indo-Pacific strategy” in a region caught in the middle of ...
by Agence France-Presse

Chinese Ambassador Lashes Australian Plan to Buy Back Key Port

China’s ambassador to Australia has condemned a push to block a Chinese company running a strategically important Australian shipping port, calling it “ethically questionable.” The Landbridge group was granted a 99-year lease on ...
by Agence France-Presse

Macron Arrives in Vietnam, Offers French Partnership Amid U.S.-China Rivalry

France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) and his wife Brigitte Macron (C in red) are greeted by Vietnamese officials upon their arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on May 25, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
By Tran Thi Minh Ha French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Vietnam on Sunday for the first leg of a tour of Southeast Asia, where he will pitch his country as a reliable ...
by Eric Olander

Indonesia, China Expand QRIS, Cross-Border Payment in Local Currency

A coffee shop provides payments using Quick Response Indonesian Standard (QRIS) and National Payment Gateway (GPN) at Portal Coffee in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on April 23, 2025. Indonesia and China expand Cross-Border Payment with Local Currency deal, aiming to reduce dollar reliance and deepen trade ties amid U.S. scrutiny. (Photo by Aman Rochman/NurPhoto). (Photo by AMAN ROCHMAN / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
Indonesia and China have renewed and expanded a key financial agreement to promote the use of local currency in bilateral transactions and cross-border payments QRIS. Bank Indonesia and the People’s Bank of ...
by Edwin Shri Bimo

Indonesia, China Agree to Bolster Ties Ahead of ASEAN Summit

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (L) and Chinese Premier Li Qiang inspect a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on May 25, 2025. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Sunday that the rise of “unilateralism and protectionism” could threaten the global economic and trade order, as he  reaffirmed Beijing’s ties with Jakarta on Sunday during his ...
by Agence France-Presse
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