Belt and Road

Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and the founding director of ... the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. NSACI Jason Matheny is a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and the founding director of the Center for Security and…

To take liberties with an African proverb, when elephants fight, it’s better to be the forest than the grass. Today, the elephants challenging each other are China and the United States. Yet, despite their differences, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have in common their dislike of any global effort to…

With the world's attention focused on the pandemic, Chinese troops have been establishing fixed positions in areas that even it considers to be on the Indian side of the disputed Line of Actual Control. The message is clear: China is now the region's preponderant power, and everyone else should fall…

By Lilian KarununganA would-be hub of Indo-Pacific commerce and global tourist gem, Sri Lanka was already struggling to deliver on grand visions before the coronavirus crisis struck the world economy. The next few months may determine its ability to avert a painful debt restructuring. The South Asian nation is locked…

China’s GDP shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter, which was its largest contraction since 1992. As one of the first countries to relax lockdown restrictions, China is now seeking to boost domestic and international demand. Despite over 80% of manufacturing returning to its former level by late February, consumers…

New Delhi: The step to retreat army from LAC that China took recently was a result of all-round pressure that India had mounted on it. Whether to answer China in its own language or to prepare a plan to defeat it by initiating talks with Trump, India has taken decisive…

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Labor governments in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria are facing mounting criticism over their reluctance to reverse prohibitive lockdown rules.The Queensland and WA premiers are being roasted over their border closures, which are sapping billions from the economy and leaving thousands of businesses on the brink of collapse.Analysts have told…

Magazine Is relief from China the answer to the debt woes of COVID-19? In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 file photo, demonstrators calling for an end to the “age of greed” march to the office of the president in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File“It’s like they grab…

The COVID-19 crisis has pushed Europeans' strategic thinking about China – already shifting because of three developments – past the tipping point. After years of pursuing closer bilateral economic ties, Europeans suddenly realize that they have become dangerously dependent on Chinese trade and investment. BERLIN – A paradigm shift is…