China’s increasing global links means the other Brics members need to draw in the rest of Africa
The Asian giant is aware of the risks of lending to South Africa’s ailing parastatals, so the question is: Why would it do so?
Former president Nelson Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC
The young woman in the northern province of Shaanxi died eight days after being bitten by the many-banded krait
Economists should note that US protectionism will create some beneficiaries in other countries
The indictments are an important step in the effort to determine what happened during the 2016 US elections
The world’s two largest economies have squared off in a tit for tat trade war that threatens to disrupt international commerce
Liu Xia, one of China’s most prominent activists for democracy, has arrived in Germany after a protracted campaign for her release
Global prosperity requires that the multilateral free-trade system be maintained and strengthened
The market positivity that ushered South Africa into 2018 after the ascendance of President Cyril Ramaphosa now seems like a distant memory
Trump warned of "additional tariffs" should Beijing hit back with tit-for-tat measures
Activists and social movements feel left out in the cold by a process that doesn’t take them seriously
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Events in recent months highlight the mounting interest of China and Russia in the Central African Republic
More leaders in more African countries will abolish term limits unless organisations like the African Union take action
Authoritarian countries will put liberal democracies under pressure
A change in perspective of how we view other beings could help the human race
‘We continue to fight against injustice because we have to. We, who have suffered so much, can ill-afford suffering in any part of the world’
Surprised? Which is to be expected when the media thrives on keeping us in a state of alarm
The US leader doesn’t understand global trade and so his decisions will harm the world economy
Steel and aluminium tariff hikes imposed by the US could mean job losses in SA
A study has found that a local event rather than a global shift in climate caused the mass extinction in South Africa
China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba, is steering resources towards driverless car technology
Earlier this month, President Trump signed a proclamation implementing new trade policies including 25% tariffs on Chinese exports
The president is poised to unveil sanctions against China for the "theft" of US intellectual property
Cities have cut levels of PM 2.5 – the tiny airborne particles considered most harmful to health – by an average of 32% in just four years.
Legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause over plans to give the president a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a superpower.
With the second largest military budget in the world, China’s president continues with his plan to build ‘a world class fighting force’
Military superpowers, which now include China, rely on Djibouti’s increasingly fragile stability
While governments need to develop coherent frameworks to regulate cryptocurrency, permanent solutions will be found through international co-operation
An innovative business rescue has preserved an asset that would be impossible to restart, in hopes that the commodity cycle will swing up again
The apology marks the latest backpedalling by a foreign company for offending Chinese consumers.