The China-Global South Podcast

In just the past twenty years, China’s trade with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean surged 26-fold to almost half-a-trillion dollars. The region is...

Senior-level Chinese stakeholders often contend that one of the main reasons for today’s heightened geopolitical tensions between China and the West is due to “misunderstandings”...

During the first Cold War, a large group of developing countries sought to distance themselves from the ideological battle between the United States and the...

There was a time when Chinese lending to developing countries rivaled the World Bank. Those days are now long gone as Chinese overseas development lending...

China’s two-way trade with countries in the Americas increased 8% last year to $486 billion, nearly twice the volume of what China does in Africa...

The Chinese debt trap narrative was started based on the purported surrender of the Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka. When Colombo fell behind in...

So much of the international news coverage of Xi Jinping’s three-day visit last week to Saudi Arabia was framed in the context of the broader...

Forty countries around the world currently do not have U.S. ambassadors. The corner offices have been empty for months, even years at U.S. embassies in...

Chinese trade with Africa is widely expected to break yet another record in 2022, while Chinese lending to countries across the continent fell again. Meantime...

Chinese President returned home from a week of intense diplomacy in Indonesia and Thailand where he attended a pair of summits and held more than...

Both the United States and China have restructured their respective foreign policy establishments in recent years to be better poised to confront each other. In...

It has been a difficult year for China in Pakistan. A burgeoning economic crisis in the South Asian country threatens to undermine the multibillion dollar...

It wasn’t that long ago that many people thought the longtime rivalry between India and China had begun to subside. In fact, Xi Jinping traveled...

The Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya is one of the flagship projects of the Belt and Road Initiative. But the SGR like other...

Israel and China are reportedly in the final stages of negotiating a free trade agreement that both sides say will be done before the end...

October marks the 9th anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and after all these years, nearly a decade later, many people around the...

Every week, The China-Global South Podcast will explore timely issues surrounding China’s engagement in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and other developing regions...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent South Pacific tour put the region in play as the latest venue for Great Power political rivalries. But even...