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Container boxes in Shanghai, China. Photo: Reuters, Aly Song

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Trans-Pacific Partnership to forge ahead without the US – at least for now

by Rodrigo Zeidan May 30, 2017February 18, 2020

By 2027, Goldman Sachs predicts that China will overtake the United States as the world’s preeminent economic power. Photo: iStock

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OBOR: How infrastructure funding trumps geopolitics

by Jon Connars May 30, 2017May 30, 2017

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will officially visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump in the White House this week. Photo: iStock

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Will Phuc’s Washington visit boost Vietnam-US ties?

by Xuan Loc Doan May 28, 2017May 28, 2017

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Can Fukuoka live up to the tech startup hype?

by Peter Langan May 26, 2017

Symbolic of Sino-American relations.

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China’s market – sensible people acting insensibly

by Grant Newsham May 26, 2017May 26, 2017

Hambantota port in Sri Lanka has been taken over by China for 99 years. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Xi’s ‘Chinese dream’ being threatened by imperial overreach

by Brahma Chellaney May 25, 2017May 25, 2017

Global repercussions? Diplomats are warning the US not to pull out of the Paris Agreement. Photo: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi

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Reenergizing the multilateral trading system

by Roberto Azevêdo May 24, 2017February 18, 2020

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before a bilateral meeting during the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 15, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Etienne Oliveau/Pool

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Western critics should not be so skeptical of Belt and Road

by Ken Moak May 20, 2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a briefing on the final day of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 15, Photo: Reuters

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Modi spurns invitation to Belt and Road inauguration

by Kadayam Subramanian May 19, 2017

Image: iStock

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A new model for Chinese overseas investment

by Liu Jiahua May 19, 2017

Cui Tiankai, China's Ambassador to the US. Photo: AFP

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Chinese envoy: Xi-Trump summit a defining point in Sino-US ties

by Doug Tsuruoka May 19, 2017February 18, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Reuters/Sputnik/Kremlin

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Vladimir Putin holds the key to the North Korea quandary

by Peter Langan May 19, 2017February 18, 2020

The North Korean ferry, the ManGyongBong, docked in the port of the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia, May 18, 2017. Reuters/Yuri Maltsev

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New ferry links North Korea with Russia despite US calls for isolation

by Reuters May 19, 2017February 18, 2020

No statues for sale.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia Commons

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Factbox — UN sanctions on North Korea

by Reuters May 18, 2017

The hooks of a crane at a port in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, October 14, 2015. Photo: Reuters/China Daily

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Will Obor really reach Southeast Asia?

by Richard Javad Heydarian May 17, 2017February 18, 2020

A Chinese boat with a team of geologists surveys the Mekong River at the border between Laos and Thailand April 23, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Jorge Silva

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Thai resistance to China’s downstream ambitions

by Tom Fawthrop May 16, 2017February 18, 2020

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After big US-China LNG deal, PetroChina eyeing US oil and gas

by Asia Unhedged May 15, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee

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US, China narrow differences on trade

by Reuters May 13, 2017February 18, 2020

China-Obor propaganda video-May-8-2017

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US decides to send delegation to China’s Obor summit

by Lin Wanxia May 12, 2017February 18, 2020

The cargo ship Wan Hai arrives at Manila's international container port. Photo: AFP, Jay Directo

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Philippines export, import growth beats expectations

by Chris Scott May 12, 2017February 18, 2020

People take pictures of the "Golden Bridge on Silk Road" installation by Chinese artist Shu Yong, set up ahead of May's Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Photo: Reuters, Thomas Peter

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China’s Xi Jinping takes center stage as host of Obor summit

by Asia Times and agencies May 11, 2017February 18, 2020

China's trade slowed, but the surplus still widened. Photo: Reuters

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China’s trade juggernaut slows in April

by Steve Wang and Agencies May 8, 2017February 18, 2020

The dollar has strengthened since Donald Trump's election.Photo: AFP / Jewel Samad

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Trump economic plan would be hostage to the almighty dollar

by Warwick McKibbin May 7, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters/David Gray

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China capitulationism: What’s missing in ANU public lecture

by Clive Hamilton May 7, 2017February 18, 2020

The leaders of Asean's member states have a strong incentive to put a higher priority on economic development than adopting a stronger defensive posture towards China. Photo: iStock

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Don’t blame Asean for acting in its interests

by Ken Moak May 6, 2017May 6, 2017

Photo: iStock

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The deep, entrenched fallacy of the ‘Asian pivot’

by Todd Royal May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. Photo: Reuters/Jorge Adorno

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Prickly questions loom for Taipei over ties with North Korea

by Wendell Minnick May 3, 2017February 18, 2020

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, a staunch supporter of the EU and therefore a potential darling of Beijing, attends a campaign rally in Arras on April 26, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Benoit Tessier

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Beijing has reasons to be ‘En Marche’ with Emmanuel Macron

by Emanuele Scimia April 27, 2017

China and other countries are pursuing a strategy aimed at reducing their dependence on the US dollar. Photo: iStock

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Petrodollar faces growing threat from the East

by Andrew Brennan April 27, 2017

Burnt bridges? This bridge connecting North Korea to the Chinese city of Dandong used to carry shipments of coal. Not now. Photo: Reuters

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Russian coal helps fill China’s North Korea vacuum

by Reuters April 25, 2017February 18, 2020