Between 2000 and 2020 alone, China extended close to $12 billion in loans to Sri Lanka, funding major infrastructure projects. The interest rates on these loans were significantly higher compared ...

By formalizing and regulating the deployment of its ex-soldiers as mercenaries, Sri Lanka could address economic, social, and ...

China seems to be gearing up to further ensnare Sri Lanka in its debt trap. This became evident when Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake undertook a four-day visit to China in mid-January ...

"President Dissanayake's visit underscores Sri Lanka's commitment to fostering robust ties with China, a partner that has ...

This steely new language was a victory in America’s long quest to get its allies to show more solidarity with Taiwan. Yet in ...

Vietnam plans to take loans from the Chinese government to partly fund a $8.3 billion project to build a new railway linking ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Alibaba says it will be Apple’s AI partner in China, and Europe frets over Trump-Putin talks ...

Chinese battery giant CATL has started the process to list in Hong Kong by lodging its filings with regulators in a deal that ...

The U.S. decision to shut down USAID has been widely criticized as a strategic victory for China, allowing it to expand its economic and political dominance unchecked.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, launched in 2013, has been marketed as an infrastructure project, but in reality ... China seizes strategic assets, like Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port, or ...

There is a guarded optimism among military experts in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump ...