Once a quiet workhorse of industry, copper has become a geopolitical flashpoint in the race for clean energy dominance Copper ...

The most infamous example is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, where the US raised tariffs on over 20,000 imports — a move ...

But what does it have to do with Africa's aid issues, you are probably asking. As a foreign journalist currently based in ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column, Compass, ...

Despite a continent-wide ban, illegal trafficking of the beasts of burden continues to thrive in Africa, with local communities caught in the crossfire of Chinese demand for ejiao gelatin. Amina (last ...

“China has signed a number of these rapacious deals marked as aid, where they’ve taken mineral ... including those in Latin America and Africa, without imposing any political attachments.

China and India have emerged as potential alternatives following the halt in health care aid imposed by Trump on sub-Saharan Africa.

The Chinese understood this decades ... of critical mineral supply chains across Africa. They saw the future while we were busy filling out aid application forms. The solution is not complicated ...

The Chinese embassy in Argentina has criticized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for “maliciously slandering” the country as it continues to fund development assistance for African and Latin ...

Some 700 million people continue to live in extreme poverty globally, two-thirds of whom are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, in the world’s 26 lowest income countries, aid represents 60 per ...

The Uganda stadium, aided by China, was completed and handed over in 1997. Four experts—Hu Yexing, Kong Huiping, Bao Jinping, ...