Panama Severs Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan
Panama has cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan to establish ties with Beijing in...
Jun 13, 2017
Panama has cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan to establish ties with Beijing in...
Apr 13, 2016
The implication of eight past and present Chinese leader’s relatives—including Xi Jinping’s...
Apr 12, 2016
The publication this month of investigations based on the so-called Panama Papers has sparked a...
Apr 11, 2016
The Panama Papers revealed links between family members of several Politburo Standing Committee...
Apr 6, 2016
The Panama Papers leaks unveiled on Sunday have implicated “family members of at least eight...
Apr 6, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Apr 4, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Oct 29, 2013
After Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved plans for a Chinese company to build and...
Jun 14, 2013
Nicaragua’s National Assembly has, as expected, approved plans for a Chinese firm to build and run a new waterway to rival the Panama Canal. From José De Córdoba at The Wall Street Journal: Supporters of the 50-year...
Jun 7, 2013
A Chinese company has been awarded a 100-year, $40 billion contract to build and operate a canal across Nicaragua, competing with the nearly 100-year-old Panama Canal. From Jonathan Watts at The Guardian: The president of the...
Mar 15, 2013
China’s appetite for raw materials has become a source of concern from Afghanistan and Mongolia to Peru and Zambia. Now, these tensions appear to have spread to Greenland, where the prospect of Chinese encroachment...
May 11, 2011
Panama is one of the few remaining countries that maintain diplomatic ties with Taipei instead of Beijing. While Beijing is usually eager to have countries switch allegiances to the mainland, officials rejected an offer from new...
Feb 22, 2011
Recent reports of a proposed Chinese-built railway across Colombia, bypassing the Panama Canal, have prompted mixed reactions. The Financial Times noted that responses in Colombian newspaper El Tiempo were “split between...
Dec 8, 2007
While offering Mandarin has become de rigueur in top schools throughout the U.S. and Europe, it is also apparently catching on in less likely locales. From the BBC: Panama is moving to make the teaching of Mandarin compulsory in all schools, in recognition of China’s growing importance in the world economy. …China is the biggest […]