Morocco to host Africa’s first gigafactory in $6.5bl deal with China’s Gotion

Chinese battery giant Gotion High Tech is set to break ground in the coming days on a $6.5 billion electric vehicle battery gigafactory in Morocco, marking a major step in the country’s growing role in the global green energy supply chain. The project, led …

Argentina Set To Expand Beef Offal Exports To China Amid Shifting Trade Dynamics

Friday, May 23, 2025 4:11 PM EDT Image Source: Unsplash Argentina is close to finalising a contract to sell cattle offal products to China, according to sources involved in the negotiations. The accord, which is still undergoing technical revisions, is a …

From Rhetoric to Reality: China-Russia Cooperation in the Arctic Accelerates

When China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin meet, one theme surfaces with clockwork regularity: Arctic collaboration. In every joint statement issued during their state visits since February 2022, the Arctic is framed as a shared strategic priority …

China greenlights mega-project canal linking resource-rich Jiangxi to wealthy Zhejiang

A new 767-kilometre-long canal linking the inland rare earth hub of Jiangxi province with the eastern coastal powerhouse of Zhejiang has officially been included in the government’s agenda, according to a recently released policy document, as the Chinese …

New Council on National Security Bolsters the FCC’s Arsenal against China

Cyber attacks and data breaches have dotted headlines in recent years, costing  individuals, firms, and government entities $452.3 billion in 2024 alone. As a result, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is working to fortify American …

UNSC, China condemn Khuzdar attack

UNITED NATIONS/BEIJING: The UN Security Council and China have condemned the "heinous and cowardly" terrorist attack on a school bus in Khuzdar, and called for bringing the culprits to justice. "The UNSC members expressed their deepest …

How China Captured Apple

But facing bankruptcy in 1996, the company sold its Mac factory in Colorado to a U.S. contract manufacturer and started down a long road of outsourcing manufacturing, first in the United States and later in Asia. It now builds most everything it sells in …

By Slashing U.S. Funding for the United Nations, Trump Is Empowering China

In his first budget proposal since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump is taking a chainsaw approach to the United Nations—similar to the one he’s taken with U.S. government departments and agencies. His administration is seeking to cut …

Leaders from the 10-member ASEAN bloc will discuss how to cope with the escalating trade showdown between China and the ...

Hegseth to attend Asia defense summit, with no China meeting planned

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will travel to the Shangri-La Dialogue, the largest defense conference in Asia, where he will deliver a speech on the Pentagon’s approach to the region under the second Trump administration. While in Singapore, though …