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Where Does China Source Its Natural Gas
China is the world's fastest-growing market for natural gas and imported more last year than any other country -- accounting for 60% of global demand. The bulk of China's imports in 2021 came from Australia (40%), with Malaysia, Qatar and the ...
Africa Should Be Cautiously Optimistic About New U.S. Africa Strategy: Analyst
Global reaction to the United States’s new Africa strategy, unveiled by Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his recent African visit, has largely split along North-South lines. While accounts in the U.S. press framed the policy as a response to China and Russia’s ...
Both Xi and Putin to Attend Upcoming G20 Summit Says Host Indonesia
Speculation over President Xi Jinping's re-emergence on the international stage gained new energy late Friday with word that the Chinese leader would attend the November G20 leaders summit in Indonesia. Andi Widjajanto, former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko ...
It’s the West’s Fault, Not Russia’s There Are Food Shortages in Africa, According to Chinese State Media
Chinese state media is promoting the narrative that the worsening food crisis in Africa is due to Western sanctions against Russia rather than because Moscow invaded a sovereign country. CGTN published a short clip on Tuesday of an ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: The United States To Re-launch B3W at Next Week’s G7 Conference
The United States will re-launch the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative at next week's G7 conference with a new program that aims to provide an alternative to Chinese infrastructure financing in the Global South. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan did not provide many details on the new ...
BRICS Summit Raises Questions About Shared Agenda
This week’s BRICS summit sets the stage for renewed wrangles around the bloc’s future role. The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will meet virtually on Thursday to discuss cooperation on issues like health cooperation and the post-pandemic recovery. However, despite ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: The First Meeting of the Zambia Creditor Committee to Convene in Paris this Week
The first meeting of the Zambia Creditor Committee, co-chaired by China and France, will convene on Thursday in Paris. IMF officials indicated on Wednesday that if everything proceeds smoothly with restructuring the country's $17.3 billion external debt, a bail-out deal with the fund could be reached by early ...
USAID Head’s House Testimony A Glimpse of U.S.-China Polarization
The United States’ development agenda in the Global South is increasingly dominated by the determination to contain China’s global influence. This became clear during budget testimony on Wednesday by Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Which Issues will Dominate the U.S.-ASEAN Summit?
U.S. officials are coming to the ASEAN summit eager to emphasize the region’s importance, and to rebalance perceptions that it is currently mostly focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Cross-cutting issues like climate change are sure to occupy some of the discussion. ...
How a Meeting Between China and the Global South 67 Years Ago Shapes Our World Today
As the crisis in Ukraine scrambles European politics and global supply lines, it’s also resurrecting long-buried geopolitical formations. In the rush to get Global South powers into formation against Russian aggression, Western powers have inadvertently added impetus to a reawakened non-aligned movement, with its roots in the ...
“Food Diplomacy” is the New “Vaccine Diplomacy” in Africa
If 2021 was the year of so-called "vaccine diplomacy" in Africa where the world's major powers stingily distributed COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries while preaching to their geopolitical rivals, 2022 is going to be the year of "food diplomacy." The worsening ...
Russia Presses BRICS to Allow Payment Routes Around Sanctions
As Russia is being squeezed by Western sanctions, it is reaching out to its partners in the BRICS bloc (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) to allow transactions in their local currencies and to integrate payment systems. This follows the move ...