US-China On Very Real Collision Course Over Panama Canal
January 27th, 2025
Via Asia Times, a look at the growing US-China tensions over the Panama Canal: United States President Donald Trump’s recent pledges to reclaim the Panama Canal have signaled rising US-China tensions in Latin America, America’s resource-rich backyard and traditional sphere of influence. After Trump said in his January 20 inauguration speech that it is time for the […]
Read more »Why China’s Port Play Has Trump So Up In Arms
January 24th, 2025
Via Asia Times, a look at how China has invested billions in 129 ports worldwide, raising concerns the Belt and Road Initiative is quietly being weaponized: On his way to the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to officially open a new US$3.6 billion deepwater […]
Read more »Development Finance in Africa: The New Rerrain for US?China Rivalry
January 19th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, commentary on how – as tensions grow around issues like critical minerals and debt – Chinese discourse about development is increasingly becoming more geopolitical: The US and China spend billions of dollars annually on development finance initiatives in Africa. The continent is consistently the largest recipient of loans, humanitarian assistance and […]
Read more »China and Sri Lanka Eye New Phase of BRI with $3.7bn Investment
January 17th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on China’s renewed BRI interest in Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will wrap up his inaugural visit to China Friday after securing a landmark investment deal that can help his country’s struggling economy, while adding value to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative projects in the strategically-located island. […]
Read more »China: Hard To Beat In Latin America
January 15th, 2025
Via The Economist, commentary on the challenges facing the U.S. in Latin America, where China buys lithium, copper and bull semen, and doesn’t export its ideology: SINCE ITS founding by landowners in 1866, the Rural Society of Argentina—motto, “To Cultivate the Soil is to Serve the Nation”—has been a potent ally for governments of the right […]
Read more »What’s Behind Egypt and China’s ‘Golden Decade’ of Partnership
January 8th, 2025
Via the Atlantic Council, a report on Egypt and China’s ‘golden decade’ of partnership: The beginning of 2025 marked the end of the “Year of the Egyptian-Chinese Partnership” and closed out the “golden decade”: A ten-year period during which Egypt and China grew their bilateral relationship as part of their efforts to deepen their comprehensive […]
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