Trump administration works to counter China's rare earth mineral dominance through new African partnerships, targeting ...

Half-baked and shoddy projects, labor exploitation, debt traps and devastating environmental damage are part of the Chinese Communist Party portfolio. And people are noticing. In 2014, the China ...

Once hailed as a symbol of China-Africa friendship, the 1,860-kilometer railway linking the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania ...

Africa has become the new great-power chessboard. The pieces aren’t soldiers or diplomats—they’re ports, railways, and ...

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A geopolitical contest is unfolding in central-southern Africa, where major global powers are vying for control of key logistical routes amid a global race to secure critical minerals for the green ...

In 1985, the American magazine Newsweek reported that the number of high-rise buildings in Shanghai, China’s biggest commercial city, could be counted on the fingertips.By 2005, 20 years later, when I ...

Simandou is the world’s largest untapped iron ore deposit, with estimated reserves of at least 3 billion tons.

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. But China could be losing ground in a country on which it heavily relies for the critical minerals that drive electric vehicle production ...

The European Commission said it has opened an investigation into possible market distortion by China's state-owned CRRC in a ...