South Africa has signed a new economic partnership framework with China that will allow duty-free access for South African exports to the Chinese market, with a follow-up agreement expected by March 2026.

Deprived of oil shipments following the US attack on Venezuela, Cuba has made moves to survive the economic blockade.

Okinawa reminds us that war does not begin with bombs. It begins with stories, about enemies, about threats, about inevitability.

Countries participating in the UN Security Council emergency meeting on Venezuela on Monday called the US aggression illegal and demanded the release of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Ignoring repeated Chinese warnings and their own expressed commitments to the one-China policy, successive US administrations have been selling arms to Taiwan and supporting separatist forces there.

China’s policy paper supports the “Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace” — a pointed contrast to US twenty-first century gunboat diplomacy.

Though Chinese exports to the US have declined almost 19% since the start of Trump’s tariff war in April, it has been able to diversify both its export destinations as well as the basket of goods to counter the effects.

China and South Africa launched a joint initiative to support modernization and technological development in Africa on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg last month.

The Chinese UN representative wrote a letter to the UN secretary general reiterating the demand that the Japanese prime minister retract her “erroneous statement” on Taiwan made last month.

Analyst Peter Yang examines how Japan’s recent comments on Taiwan reflect its deeper anxieties rooted in its imperial past amid China’s rise.

Though Japan recognizes the “one-China policy”, earlier this month its prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, threatened military intervention if China tried to unify Taiwan with the mainland.

China stated that the G7 has no moral standing to question its defensive policies when the weapons supplied by them are used to kill hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere.