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Foreign Policy illustration/Getty Images And a lot is riding on whether Washington can figure out which strategy Beijing has chosen. Xi Jinping’s China is displaying a superpower’s ambition. Only a few years ago, many American observers still hoped that China would reconcile itself to a supporting role in the liberal…

New Delhi (Sputnik): India and China might not be in a head-on conflict, but both countries have launched a diplomatic offensive in the region by supplying medical aid to the countries of South Asia. However, the two-week border stand-off between the two neighbours has raised questions, such as how long…

Why does China often refer to itself as a “Near-Arctic state” when the most northern point of the country is nearly 1,000 miles away from the Arctic Ocean? As climate change in the twenty-first century began to reveal undiscovered oil and open up previously frozen shipping routes in the Arctic,…

Whether it’s India’s latest clashes with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), its selective embrace of “economic nationalism” to “poach” foreign companies from the People’s Republic, or its forthcoming leadership of the World Health Assembly (WHA) where it might very well take Washington’s side in demanding an investigation…

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has signed a whopping 442 billion Pakistani Rupees (PKR) contract with a joint venture of a Chinese state-run firm and a commercial arm of Pakistan’s military for the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam. Chinese state-run firm China Power holds 70% and the Frontier Works Organisation…

A logo is seen on the wheel of a Pirelli tyre displayed for a news conference by ChemChina and Pirelli in BeijingMILAN (Reuters) - Italian tyre-maker Pirelli said it would take its worst hit from the COVID-19 crisis in the current quarter after reporting a 36% drop in first-quarter operating…

Academics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a hawkish Washington, DC, think tank with heavy influence over US foreign policy, have criticized the paucity of the Pentagon’s Arctic policy, where it ostensibly aims to challenge growing Russian and Chinese presence as global warming opens the region’s icy…

Crossroads Asia | Economy | Central Asia TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan’s most active airport. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gleb OsokinAn offshore company linked to Kazakhstan’s elite sold its shares in Almaty International Airport on May 8 to TAV, a Turkish holding of the ADP Group, for…

The Sakkara solar farm in Saudi Arabia, completed by ACWA Power. Image: ACWA Power. Saudi Arabian developer ACWA Power has set its sights on an accelerated growth trajectory after China’s Silk Road Fund completed the purchase of a minority stake in the firm’s renewables arm. The deal, first announced last…

Trump’s China policy has been Janus: one face for China, the other for the rest of the world. Last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump proclaimed that he and China’s Xi Jinping “love each other.” Also in January, Trump praised China for its “efforts and transparency” on…