Chinese dictator Xi Jinping made a pitch for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, at a time of growing discontent with the heavy debt loads, environmental impact, and challenges to sovereignty from Communist China’s signature infrastructure initiative.
A growing number of critics in Asia are accusing the Chinese Communist Party this week of irresponsible overdevelopment in the Himalayas.
Xi Jinping marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of mass murderer Fidel Castro with a letter to his brother and dirty-works specialist, Raúl, on Monday – a reminder to Cuba that China is fighting tooth and nail to retain its influence in Latin America after successive conservative presidential wins.
Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, set to assume the office on Friday, is expected to withdraw the country from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), President Donald Trump’s nominee to represent America in the country told Congress on Wednesday.
The Defense Ministry of Kuwait confirmed that Iran bombed a Chinese company in the country, killing an employee.
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times quoted an alleged “expert” assuring residents of the country that the threat of an outbreak of Ebola there remains low despite the close economic ties between the Communist Party and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
China is winning a global infrastructure war that most Americans don’t even know is being fought.
The Chinese Communist Party offered hearty congratulations to Hungary’s expected next prime minister, Péter Magyar, on Monday following his party’s sound defeat of current Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, signaling interest in maintaining the outsized influence Beijing developed during Orbán’s 16 years in power.
Clients of China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are asking Beijing for help with spiking energy costs due to the Iran conflict, but so far China has reportedly offered little assistance, instead shutting down fuel exports to conserve its own energy stockpiles and protect its own economy.
The Chinese Communist Party, through its state media arms, complained on Monday that President Donald Trump was “playing games among small circles” by hosting a large group of Western Hemisphere leaders for a summit this weekend called Shield of the Americas.
The Communist Party of China declared on Thursday that it “strongly opposes and deplores” statements by the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau lamenting a court case that could bring one of Peru’s most critical ports under control of a Party-linked corporate entity.
A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, convicted two Chinese citizens on Wednesday on charges of “cyber-terrorism,” accused and pleading guilty of participating in a massive “cryptocurrency, investment and romance” fraud scheme.
The business outlet Bloomberg reported on Thursday that its anonymous sources affirmed that the Chinese Communist Party had ordered an end to “projects” in Panama following that nation’s top court ruling that a deal granting outsized power to a Hong Kong corporation over the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.
Uruguay’s Leftist President Yamandú Orsi met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing, pushing his country closer to communist China.
Nicaragua is set to pay $2 billion in interest to China for the multiple predatory debt trap loans it has signed with the Chinese communist regime, the newspaper Confidencial reported Monday.
The unexpected deterioration in relations between Pakistan and the Taliban junta in Afghanistan has thrown a wrench into the works for China, which had ambitions to spread its influence through Central Asia – and plunder Afghanistan’s natural resources – by folding Afghanistan into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Latin America, once fertile ground for China to sign “Belt and Road” infrastructure deals with poor countries, is turning its back on “crappy” construction projects that erode the sovereignty of local governments, a senior State Department official told Breitbart News.
China and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, to explore the possibility of jointly building a transcontinental railroad from the east coast of Brazil to the west coast of Peru – directly to a port funded and partially owned by Beijing.
A Taliban official told Reuters that the group is in the “advanced” stages of a deal to do business with Russia using local currency.
President Donald Trump called for military and commercial ships from the United States to be able to travel through the Suez and Panama Canals without facing a fee, and added that he had directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take care of the issue.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the “limitless potential” of their bilateral ties.
Foreign Affairs Minister Lejone Mpotjoane of Lesotho said his nation would be “happy” to invite President Donald Trump to visit.
At least three lawmakers were injured on Tuesday after chaos erupted in Serbia´s parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown.
A newly inaugurated, allegedly state-of-the-art international airport in one of Pakistan’s most restive regions appears to have no significant plane traffic in it since its first arrival in late January, multiple reports revealed this week, and has left locals confused and concerned for what it means about their future.
Serbia´s populist Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned amid anti-corruption protests over the deadly collapse of a concrete canopy.
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a strong interest in acquiring control of the Panama Canal, potentially by force if necessary.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping held extensive, fruitful meetings with socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday that concluded with the countries agreeing to elevate their diplomatic ties to that of “Community for a Shared Brazil-China Future for a More Just World and More Sustainable Planet.”
Anti-govt protesters in Serbia on Monday demanded arrests and the resignations of top officials over the deadly collapse of a concrete roof.
Argentine Ambassador to China Marcelo Suarez Salvia claimed to China’s state-run newspaper Global Times on Thursday that the government of President Javier Milei is “willing” to continue engaging with China despite Milei’s staunch opposition to communism.
The World Bank published a study on Sunday that found 26 of the world’s poorest nations — including Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, and North Korea — are “in deeper debt than at any other time since 2006.”
A separatist group in Pakistan reportedly took credit for a terrorist attack on Sunday that killed at two Chinese nationals and left several others injured, apparently targeting a Chinese-funded company.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think tank that focuses on research into China, revealed on Friday that the Communist Party developed an application for companies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to use to feed information to Beijing.
Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi announced that his terrorist organization is running 39 Afghanistan diplomatic missions.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between Nicaragua’s communist regime and China has had little to no effect on improving the Nicaraguan economy, the local newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.
Cubans in Havana are increasingly resorting to using Chinese electric motorbikes, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, as the decrepit “classic” vehicles tourists fawn over become increasingly less reliable and the Communist Party fails to keep gasoline and diesel fuel stocked.
Chinese state media celebrated the third anniversary of Taliban conquest of Afghanistan on Wednesday with friendly state media coverage claiming the country has finally found “relative peace” – but condemning U.S. President Joe Biden for leaving a “mess” in his wake.
Nicaragua’s communist regime awarded its first open-pit mining lease to a Chinese company, state media confirmed on Tuesday.
China’s ambassador to Brazil said Beijing considers adding Brazil to the Belt and Road Initiative a “fundamental measure” to cement ties.
Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation.
The government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán confirmed that it had taken out a billion dollar loan owed to Chinese banks.
