Chinese President Xi Jinping secured an agreement from partner countries to set up a new development bank, realizing a longtime ambition in a display of Beijing’s growing influence. Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization agreed to establish the institution, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday at the end of the two-day SCO summit that…
Welcome to our guide to the commodities markets powering the global economy. Today, senior reporter Dan Murtaugh writes on the energy triangle between China, India and Russia as their leaders meet in Tianjin. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s get-together could hardly have come at a better moment for China’s leader. At a time when the US…
The warming of ties between India and China appears to be accelerating. Both burned by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on their exports, the world’s most populous nations took a major step last week to move beyond a deadly 2020 border clash by agreeing to redouble efforts to settle such disputes, which date back to…