In a divided UN, China blazes quiet path to power
AFP | Criticized by the White House for alleged interference in US politics, China has quietly blazed a path at the United Nations where it...
US, China look on as Putin seeks India arms deals
AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra...
Leave South China sea: Chinese warship warns US destroyer
AFP | A Chinese warship sailed within yards of an American destroyer -- forcing it to change course -- in an "unsafe and unprofessional" encounter...
Are Chinese debts going to kill CPEC?
News Analysis | Despite assurances by the government of Pakistan that Islamabad is completely on board with Beijing vis-à-vis the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, some in...
Cold War returns? Russia & China condemn American “Blackmail”
AFP | China and Russia denounced the use of "blackmail" Friday in thinly-veiled rebukes of President Donald Trump, highlighting the chasm between the US and...
US-China ties sour as Xi, Trump friendship fades
AFP | For more than a year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping could count on one thing even as his government clashed with the United States...
EU launches Asia strategy to rival China’s ‘new Silk Road’
AFP | As doubts grow over China's vast "Belt and Road" trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it...
Nepal reinstates $2.5bn hydropower deal with Chinese firm
AFP | Nepal has reinstated a deal with a Chinese state-owned company to build a $2.5 billion hydroelectric plant scrapped by the previous government, officials...
Middle Eastern black swans dot China’s Belt and Road – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the...
U.S move of sanctioning China for buying Russian military hardware is not going to play well
News Analysis | U.S state department has imposed fresh economic sanctions over Russia, blacklisting further companies, military and intelligence personnel for “malign activities”. It is...
US plans massive spending on its Air Force to maintain the edge over China and Russia
News Analysis | The U.S Secretary of Air Force Heather Wilson stated that the air force is too small in size to intercept the challenges...
China struggles with Belt and Road pushback
James M. Dorsey | China, in an implicit recognition that at least some of its Belt and Road-related projects risk trapping target countries in debt...