President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate Chancay port when he visits Peru next week. The Chinese-funded megaport may reshape Pacific trade, but has also made the United States uneasy. In the second of a two-part series, Igor Patrick looks at the implications for the whole of South American continent. Erik Bethel, a former US…
President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate Chancay port when he visits Peru next week. The Chinese-funded megaport may reshape Pacific trade, but has also made the United States uneasy. In the first of a two-part series, Igor Patrick looks at the history of the project, its impact on global trade and the social costs…
Expectations are high for a China-US summit to manage risks ahead of a change of guard at the White House, with the presidents of both countries headed to South America next week. Observers see such a summit as part of efforts to stabilise ties before Donald Trump takes office as the 47th US president in…
Text size Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for meetings of APEC and the G20, Beijing’s foreign ministry said Friday. Xi will go to Lima from November 13 to 17 and Rio de Janeiro from November 17 to 21, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. In…
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will hold talks with Japan’s top national security official Takeo Akiba in Beijing on Monday, aiming to lay groundwork for the first summit between their leaders later this month, Japanese media reported while citing government sources. Sources told Japanese news agency Kyodo on Sunday that plans were under way for…
Beijing has attributed an incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into Japan’s airspace in late August to an unspecified “unexpected obstruction”, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on the weekend, citing diplomatic sources. The explanation comes amid plans on both sides for an imminent meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba,…
Chancay is typical of the “first civilian, later military” logic of hundreds of Belt and Road projects around the world, according to the Asia Pacific Policy Institute, a US think tank. “It’s an effort to be subtle and discreet while expanding the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to project power overseas,” Danny Russel, the institute’s vice…