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Ecuador is struggling to service Chinese loans: President Lenín Moreno with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Aid

Limits of sovereignty

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by Hans Dembowski

In human history, opium was always an important commodity

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by Hans Dembowski
Top leaders at this year’s G7 summit in Quebec.

Global affairs

Do what you preach

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by Hans Dembowski

China’s aid lending is neither entirely good nor totally bad

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by Hans Dembowski
The ministers of 11 nations celebrate the conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in Santiago de Chile in March. The participating countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

Global trade

“I do not know whether the WTO will survive”

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Google search at a Thai internet café.

Asian economies

New cross-border competition policy

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by Yasuyuki Sawada
by Cyn-Young Park
by Hans Dembowski
The protection masks offer are limited, but in China’s smog-engulfed cities – like Shanghai, for example – they have become a regular outdoor accessory.

China

Poisonous air is making us sick

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by Felix Lee

Xi’s Consolidation

China’s leader gets stronger, but his regime gets weaker

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by Hans Dembowski
Young men enjoying a bicycle ride on the beach in the low-carbon city of Xiamen in South-West China. China is recently experiencing a bicycle and outdoor activity boom.

SDGs

China’s efforts

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by Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn
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