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.
Shoring up New Delhi's influence around South Asia is top on Narendra Modi's to-do list. Achieving success, however, will depend on fending off China and its Belt and Road Initiative.
China's all-encompassing infrastructure project is key to the country's future. Faced with pushback, however, Beijing is having to sweeten the pot for participating nations.
Animated by their opposing visions of economic prosperity and global influence, China and India's competition over Pakistani and Iranian ports, respectively, carry on at all costs.
