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Is Africa's economic relationship with the West dying?
Cobus van Staden, Eric Olander and Geraud Neema discuss the weakening trade ties between Africa, the U.S. and Europe and why China's infrastructure-led engagement offers a different model.
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Myanmar’s rare earths are fueling China’s EV, defense and clean-energy supply chains. Now Washington wants in, but Myanmar’s civil war and Beijing’s entrenched mineral networks stand between America and a strategic foothold.
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China’s $1 trillion trade surplus exposes Beijing’s growing reliance on foreign demand, with the AI boom powering exports while weak domestic consumption and mounting trade tensions threaten to complicate its global ambitions.
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Taiwan is sending Acer founder Stan Shih to China's APEC summit in Shenzhen, but his appointment comes with a pointed demand: Beijing must guarantee Taiwan's equal participation, dignity and security. The summit is becoming another test of how far China will go to control Taiwan's international space.
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Iran is dangling a $300 billion investment package before Chinese companies, opening a major economic front in Tehran’s battle against U.S. sanctions and Beijing’s push to deepen its strategic foothold in the Middle East.
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Falling tanker rates are opening the floodgates for Asian buyers, with China snapping up discounted African crude and reshaping the battle for the continent’s oil exports.
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Washington’s Cuba sanctions are now pulling Chinese companies into its pressure campaign, but Beijing is standing firmly with Havana, turning the island into another flashpoint in the U.S.-China struggle over sovereignty, sanctions and influence in the Global South.
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Taiwan is sending Acer founder Stan Shih to China's APEC summit in Shenzhen, but his appointment comes with a pointed demand: Beijing must guarantee Taiwan's equal participation, dignity and security. The summit is becoming another test of how far China will go to control Taiwan's international space.
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China’s $1 trillion trade surplus exposes Beijing’s growing reliance on foreign demand, even as the AI boom powers exports, while weak domestic consumption and mounting trade tensions threaten to complicate its global ambitions.
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Chinese independent refiners have purchased millions of barrels of Brazilian crude oil in recent deals, traders said, as easing freight rates improved the economics of long-haul shipments and buyers rushed to use their annual import quotas. chinaglobalsouth.com/2026/11…
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Citi aims to ride Chinese businesses' global growth and the expanding use of the yuan worldwide to boost its currency trading and cross-border business, senior executives said. chinaglobalsouth.com/2026/11…
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China is hosting APEC in Shenzhen, but Taiwan is drawing a red line: Beijing cannot turn hosting the summit into political leverage over Taiwan's equal participation.
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Indonesia is tapping China’s financial markets for $1.5 billion in yuan-denominated debt, deepening Beijing’s role in financing Southeast Asia’s largest economy and giving Jakarta another route to reduce its reliance on the U.S. dollar.
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China is taking its space diplomacy into orbit, with Pakistan set to become the first foreign country to send an astronaut aboard its Tiangong space station, turning decades of strategic partnership into a historic foothold in human spaceflight.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will visit China on November 13-14 and meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of the APEC summit, a spokesperson at Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.
Washington’s Cuba sanctions are now pulling Chinese companies into its pressure campaign, but Beijing is standing firmly with Havana, turning the island into another flashpoint in the U.S.-China struggle over sovereignty, sanctions and influence in the Global South.
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Taiwan is participating in this year's APEC leaders' summit in China on the principle of interaction on an "equal basis", President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, after his government called for a written guarantee from Beijing for that to happen. chinaglobalsouth.com/2026/11…
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The tide of history cannot be stopped, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, urging complete "reunification" of Taiwan with the motherland and pledging to do so peacefully, without mentioning the use of force. chinaglobalsouth.com/2026/11…
Falling tanker rates are opening the floodgates for Asian buyers, with China snapping up discounted African crude and reshaping the battle for the continent’s oil exports.
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Iran is dangling a $300 billion investment package before Chinese companies, opening a major economic front in Tehran’s battle against U.S. sanctions and Beijing’s push to deepen its strategic foothold in the Middle East.
buff.ly/Vtu1kgL
Myanmar’s rare earths are fueling China’s EV, defense and clean-energy supply chains. Now Washington wants in, but Myanmar’s civil war and Beijing’s entrenched mineral networks stand between America and a strategic foothold.
buff.ly/LcHIt9A