
Tehran will aim to balance increased cooperation with Beijing by pursuing sanctions relief from the U.S. and overall deeper ties with Western countries.
Tehran will aim to balance increased cooperation with Beijing by pursuing sanctions relief from the U.S. and overall deeper ties with Western countries.
The move shows the White House remains committed to its security and economic engagements in the region, with an eye on countering China and Russia.
The overnight seizure of government buildings cast doubt over President Jeenbekov’s continued rule, but the crisis is unlikely to shift the country’s overall policy direction.
The IMF’s announced $1 billion disbursement will help fill some of Angola’s financing gaps, though there is clearly a market view that the country may still require more comprehensive debt restructuring.
As COVID-19 forces the EU to remain focused on recovering (and not enlarging) its economy, candidate countries such as Serbia risk veering away from the reforms they had been pursuing to earn their place in the bloc.
With the pressures and opportunities of both a continental and maritime power, China faces an amphibian’s dilemma, as the characteristics best suited for life at sea and life at land may not always prove complementary.
By Rodger Baker
Fear is spreading faster than the coronavirus in Europe, complicating EU relations with China, the bloc's second-most important trading partner.
Extended quarantines and transit disruptions would inevitably weigh on China's industrial, manufacturing and commercial output and ripple across the globe.
With the West souring on Myanmar over its treatment of the Rohingya, China is positioned to make more inroads into its southern neighbor.
With neither striving for a comprehensive solution to bilateral disagreements, Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping will settle for not rocking the boat when they meet this weekend.