China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...

The newly minted International Organization for Mediation aims to resolve hotspot disputes with a "Chinese touch," Beijing's top diplomat said.

This does not mean that U.S. allies should surrender to Trump’s intimidation. Together, they can exert considerable influence ...

Musk has expressed his public opposition to Trump’s bill for some time now. In May, he said that he was “disappointed to see ...

In May, the United States and China reached a preliminary trade deal—as Trump lowered his 145 percent tariffs to 30 percent, ...

Rather than push for new WHO leadership, the Biden administration voted to allow Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

Vowing to “counter China’s growing influence over seabed mineral resources,” the Trump administration is opening a new front ...

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who recently left President Donald Trump’s administration, has blasted the tax cuts and spending ...

The US State Department has introduced performance metrics for American ambassadors in Africa to evaluate them based on the ...

The Agreement is watered down with qualifiers, lacks enforcement mechanisms and specifies no penalties for failures to meet ...

As the U.S. retreats from the World Health Organization, China is partly filling the void. China looks to supplant the U.S.