In the palm of a hand, a corporate empire is crumbling. A billionaire CEO has just lost his memory, and a kind-hearted, impoverished young woman has just saved his life. They stare at each other. The music swells. Then, the screen goes black. “Next episode 20 from 120” The video is not on a cinema […]
China has gradually expanded its military and security cooperation with African countries, especially since the establishment of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2000. Beyond traditional areas of engagement like peacekeeping and naval escorts, security cooperation now encompasses digital and public security, overseas interests, and infrastructure protection, as well as security governance under the […]
China’s military has set up an aviation training center in Laos, at Ban Keun airport about 50 kilometers north of the capital, Vientiane. China’s defense ministry, which announced the China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy on September 29, said they will train Lao air force pilots and are “not directed […]
As U.S.-Ukraine relations sink to one of their lowest points in years, Chinese nationalist commentators are casting Beijing as an unlikely lifeline for Kyiv. With President Donald Trump easing sanctions on Russian diesel and publicly criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, they argue that China may be one of the few powers capable of brokering an […]
African ownership of the continent’s vast mineral wealth took center stage during an October meeting in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Botswana counterpart Duma Boko. It was Boko’s declaration that “Africa’s natural resources belong to Africa” that grabbed the headlines, underscoring what he described as a fundamental principle for any cooperation in […]
Chinese-made technology products have long been part of everyday life in Indonesia. For many years, however, people often associated them with low prices and inferior quality, while premium products were more commonly linked to brands from Europe, Japan, or South Korea. That perception is beginning to change. Chinese digital platforms such as TikTok and CapCut […]
The logistics of shifting from gas-powered transport to electric mobility have long been a sticking point of the e-mobility revolution. This week’s battery news should be a hit for logistics companies: The world’s largest battery maker, China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), introduced a five-minute battery-swapping system. One example is Kenya’s BasiGo, which partnered […]
India’s ambition to become a global power in artificial intelligence is increasingly shaped by a difficult question: how much can it rely on foreign technology without compromising control over data, infrastructure, and the algorithms that decide how AI behaves? As the United States and China compete for technological dominance, New Delhi wants to build indigenous […]
Chinese imports are pouring into three of Africa’s largest economies, South Africa, Nigeria, and Morocco, at a record pace this year, according to new data. But the impact is far from uniform. For some local producers, the surge is a serious competitive threat, while for others it means cheaper access to the inputs they need. […]
China is on track to surpass last year’s record $1.2 trillion goods trade surplus. The scale is staggering, underscoring just how much the rest of the world buys from Chinese factories. Critics accuse Beijing of fueling overcapacity through subsidies and other incentives that sustain production beyond what markets can profitably absorb, pushing cheap exports overseas […]
