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An African journalist flies a kite at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.

Media

How China is expanding its media influence in Africa

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
The Chinese-built Entebbe Expressway in Uganda.

Africa

China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Rare earth mining site in Kachin State, Myanmar.

Rare earths

Myanmar: A hidden source of China’s most critical minerals

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by Seng Li
by Johanna Sydow
Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in September.

International relations

Why India and China are realigning their relations

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
In 1860, a joint force of French and British troops demolished the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Illicit drugs

How opium became a pillar of the British Empire

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by Hans Dembowski
Mongolia lies between two powerful neighbours.

International Criminal Court

Why Mongolia’s legal failure to arrest Putin has only limited political impact

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by Hans Dembowski
Handicraft items figure among Nepal’s exports: woman weaving a shawl at a trade fair in Kathmandu in early 2023.

Landlocked nation

Nepal is sandwiched between two BRICS members

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
Container handling in the port of Mannheim in Germany.

China

How China is causing global shifts

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Coup supporters in Niger wave Russian flags.

Russia and China

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski
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