Sri Lanka said Friday it had leased a white elephant international airport built with Chinese loans to a foreign joint venture as the island nation’s bankrupt government seeks to offload loss-making assets. The small airport near a wildlife sanctuary on the southern coast opened in 2013 but was immediately plagued by problems and has been a running sore on state coffers since. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese ..read more

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit China next month in a bid to “restore confidence” following a series of terrorist attacks against Chinese interests in the South Asia country. Sharif will try to reassure officials in Beijing that the development of the $65 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor remains on track despite assaults by separatist militants. (ARAB NEWS PAKISTAN) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Cambodia on Sunday, the last stop on a three-nation Asia-Pacific tour that also included Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Wang will meet sep ..read more

A video of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. purportedly ordering the Philippines Armed Forces to take action against China circulated widely on YouTube on Wednesday, prompting an immediate response from the president’s communications team who denounced it as a “deepfake.” The audio on the clip was made using artificial intelligence to sound like Marcos giving orders for the military to attack Chinese vessels and outposts in the South China Sea. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China ..read more

Diplomats from China and the African Union met this week as part of a regular dialogue focused on human rights. Even though Monday’s talks were premised on making “concrete recommendations to pressing human rights concerns in both regions,” neither side made any direct critiques of the other or even offered any suggestions. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South ..read more

Iran sold just $1.2 billion worth of goods to China in the first quarter of the year, according to new China Customs data released this week. That figure, though, is wholly misleading since it does not align with the news that Iran exported $35 billion worth of oil last year, with an estimated 90% going to China. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South ..read more

Chile’s biggest steel plant has resumed activities after the government imposed a temporary tariff on Chinese imports. The Huachipato plant, which provides 2,700 direct jobs and some 20,000 indirect ones, announced a month ago it was winding down, unable to compete with Chinese steel that sells for about 40 percent cheaper in the South American country. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and ..read more

Zambian Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said the quiet part out loud when he acknowledged that previous administrations borrowed too much money from China. “The level of debt that Zambia acquired from China was way, way too high,” he told the Wall Street Journal last week in response to a question about the difficulties Zambia faced in restructuring its debts over the past three years. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides ..read more

Two China Eastern planes chartered by the Ministry of Public Security arrived in Wuhan from Cambodia on Sunday carrying the last batch of 680 telecom fraud suspects apprehended in a joint Sino-Cambodian police operation earlier this month. Soon after they disembarked, the 135 suspects were displayed for the media to send a message that China is working closely with other countries in the region to crack down on cross-border scams. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa rela ..read more

A landslide parliamentary election victory for the Maldives’ pro-China president clears the way for him to redraw the physical and geopolitical map of his strategically-located Indian Ocean archipelago in Beijing’s favor, diplomats and analysts say. President Mohamed Muizzu’s party, the People’s National Congress (PNC), will have 67 seats in the 93-member majlis, or parliament, full preliminary results showed Monday — already a two-thirds supermajority, plus support from five allied legislators. A raft of Beijing-funded and Chinese-built projects, including an artificial island with tens of th ..read more

By Pam CASTRO Thousands of Filipino and American troops kicked off joint military exercises in the Philippines on Monday, as Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the region raises fears of a conflict. Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $19/mo OR Yea ..read more