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The End of the Oil Order Is Here and China Is Already Winning
The Iran war has been a real education in how global orders change. The system built on the immutable logic of oil and gas trade seemed as solid as a continent. Now it looks as wobbly as a Jenga tower. While ...
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China’s Foreign Policy Faces a Dual Test as It Challenges U.S. Power and Manages Turbulence at Home
By Lukas Fiala Earlier this week, I was asked to reflect on the main drivers of Chinese foreign policy in the coming months and into next year, in the context of the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.
Han Zheng Heads to South Africa for High-Level Bilateral Talks
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is in South Africa this week to co-chair the ninth South Africa-China Bi-National Commission with Deputy President Paul Mashatile in Cape Town, part of a three-country African tour that also includes Kenya and Seychelles. South Africa’s government ...
China Pushes Middle East Diplomacy Into Overdrive
China’s Middle East diplomacy accelerated sharply on Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi working the phones with counterparts in Türkiye and Egypt while Beijing’s top regional envoy, Zhai Jun, met Gulf ambassadors in Beijing. The common thread was clear: China is ...
Iran Offers Safe Passage to BRICS Partners as China’s Role Looms Large
Iran offered “safe passage” through the Strait of Hormuz to South Africa and other BRICS countries, underscoring how the ongoing conflict is reshaping shipping access along one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints. Tehran signaled that “friendly countries” would be ...
Opening scene of a popular AI-generated video uses traditional Chinese allegory to frame the war in Iran. Image cia CCTV.
China’s official position on the U.S-Israeli war against Iran has been clear to international audiences from the statements of its highest officials. But what about domestic audiences? Last week, CCTV released an AI-animated video that presents a window into how the conflict is being framed ...
Han Zheng Heads to South Africa for High-Level Bilateral Talks
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is in South Africa this week to co-chair the ninth South Africa-China Bi-National Commission with Deputy President Paul Mashatile in Cape Town, part of a three-country African tour that also includes Kenya and Seychelles. South Africa’s government ...
China Pushes Middle East Diplomacy Into Overdrive
China’s Middle East diplomacy accelerated sharply on Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi working the phones with counterparts in Türkiye and Egypt while Beijing’s top regional envoy, Zhai Jun, met Gulf ambassadors in Beijing. The common thread was clear: China is ...
Iran Offers Safe Passage to BRICS Partners as China’s Role Looms Large
Iran offered “safe passage” through the Strait of Hormuz to South Africa and other BRICS countries, underscoring how the ongoing conflict is reshaping shipping access along one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints. Tehran signaled that “friendly countries” would be ...
China Halts Fertilizer Exports
The Chinese government has stopped exports of fertilizers as the disruption caused by the Iran war mounts. Authorities reportedly told exporters to halt shipments of nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends. The curb also applies to urea, a key fertilizer ingredient. ...
It’s Already Too Late to Break China’s EV Battery Dominance
U.S., European, and Japanese leaders are all talking about the urgency of building new supply chains to end their reliance on China for critical minerals and batteries that will power next-generation mobility, technology, and weapons. It all sounds great and makes ...
BRICS Faces a Test as China and India Offer Starkly Different Responses to War
In the space of 24 hours, between Sunday and Monday, the foreign ministers from both China and India laid out their respective governments’ positions on the escalating war in the Middle East. In Beijing, China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, was unsparing ...
China’s Top Diplomat Warns That U.S.-China Estrangement Risks Global Catastrophe as Xi-Trump Summit Looms
By Liz Lee and Xiuhao Chen U.S.-China dialogue is vital to preventing globally damaging miscalculations, China's top diplomat said on Sunday, ahead of a highly anticipated summit this month between leaders Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
Why Green Energy Will Be the Big Winner of the Iran Crisis
Remember “no blood for oil”? Decades ago, the slogan emblematized opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Its logic subsequently shifted as the United States experienced a gas and oil revolution thanks to fracking. It has cycled back into ...
China’s Next Five-Year Plan and the Global South
China’s next five-year economic development plan will be unveiled at its largely ceremonial national legislature, the National People’s Congress, on March 5. The plan, which covers 2026 to 2030, will likely outline the CPC’s aim to shift the Chinese economy toward boosting domestic consumption.
Social Media Commentators Are Misreading the China Angle in the U.S.–Israeli War With Iran
By William Figuerora, Assistant Professor at Groningen University There are a lot of spurious claims that China will be badly damaged by the U.S and Israeli war against Iran, going as far as to suggest that China might be the real ...
EU Lawmakers Question Global Gateway’s Africa Spending as China Comparison Intensifies
The EU's answer to China's Belt and Road Initiative is facing new scrutiny from lawmakers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Global Gateway (GG), a program launched in 2021 to finance infrastructure in developing countries, was the focus of a new ...
Chinese New Year Travel: Southeast Asia Back in Focus
China’s Lunar New Year travel surge is once again reshaping tourism flows across the Global South, with Southeast Asia emerging as a key beneficiary, though not uniformly. Outbound trips have rebounded strongly, but geopolitics, visa policies, and safety perceptions are increasingly ...