China has extended its dominance at home and abroad over critical minerals that are essential to future high-tech and renewable-energy industries. Amid intensifying geopolitical competition, Western countries are increasing...
This week, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a militant separatist group from Pakistan’s southwestern province, claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks that left 73 people dead across numerous provinces....
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
At a recent summit in Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) decided to approve a 15-year continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their hides. Donkey hides are a key component of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)...
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this week, investigation teams...
According to Stephen Chen from South China Morning Post, Chinese engineers are making plans to...
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
In recent years, as Beijing has been expanding economic ties with Latin America, engagement with...
In Myanmar, 155 Chinese citizens have been sentenced—all but two to life—for illegal logging....
Following state media’s recent announcement that state-owned companies were planning to...
The Center for Investigative Reporting has produced a two-part series looking into Shuanghui...
China’s massive energy demands are expected to keep growing as its oil fields continue...
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
Hereward Holland of National Geographic investigates illegal logging in Myanmar, largely...
Micah Zenko interviews Elizabeth Economy and Michael Levi about their new book By All Means...
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Central Asia marked a watershed moment in China’s pivot to...
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