China is Asia’s behemoth. Where is it heading?
‘Cultural pollution,’ the Vietnamese Politburo called Coca Cola and other American multinationals in the early 1990s. Capitalist dogs. Advertising crooks. But the rollout was not to be stopped. That was then. But in 2025, Southeast…
The number of Chinese workers in Africa hit a new low in 2022, marking a continued decline each year since peaking at nearly 264,000 workers in 2015. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at…
China prepared on Monday to host representatives of 130 countries for a forum that will be overshadowed by the Israel-Gaza war, as an increasingly assertive Beijing is asked to help de-escalate the violence. Beijing has…
The first section of Kenya’s Chinese-built railway was opened with much fanfare in 2017 – but two years later work on the tracks stopped in the middle of the country and the master plan of…
Eritrea’s Mao-reading president used to seem like a relic. Now Issaias Afwerki is on a roll. Eritrea is emerging as the unlikely powerbroker in the Horn of Africa. More prominent leaders are courting him. In…
On Gabonese national TV, soldiers declared the cancellation of recent election results and the dissolution of “all the institutions of the republic.” This development occurred not long after the national election authority’s statement that President…
After months of deliberations, six new nations have become the new members of the bloc including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Ethiopia, Egypt and UAE – this was announced by the host Cyril Ramaphosa in the…
Divisions re-emerge ahead of critical expansion debate. China and Russia are eager to expand. India, Brazil and South Africa fear diluted influence and power imbalance. Reuters, BRICS leaders met on Tuesday to plot the future…
The People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM), better known as China’s Little Blue Men are a naval militia that is involved in gray zone operations, or “low-intensity maritime rights protection struggles,” at a level designed to…
The Ethiopian prime minister says his landlocked country will have direct port access. Abiy Ahmed wants to increase economic growth. But how far is he prepared to go? And what could Ethiopia’s neighbors offer? Al…
The official Russian news agency, TASS, reported on the Wagner group’s activities in Africa. Units of the controversial private military company rescued 12 Chinese miners from militants.
(Pakistan Journal of Social Research) China’s Belt and Road Initiative and security architecture of Indian Ocean region. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) seeks to facilitate and cultivate China’s peaceful rise. According to China’s position…
