Turkmenistan holds the world’s fourth largest gas reserves; from the Galkynysh Field huge black pipes thread their way east across the vast searing deserts of…
Last week I had the pleasure of discussing the internal machinations of the Chinese Communist Party with Minxin Pei, a prominent China governance expert and …
The year is 2015: following a coup in an unstable Central African state, the new government eyeing an easy and unpopular target, seizes control of…
The bleak, lunar like Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia are the focus of the one of the most intriguing examples of Chinese engagement with Latin…
The last decade witnessed the radically reshaping of Brazilian foreign policy by President Lula. He toured Africa several times to meet with heads of state,…
How China and India’s appetite for energy will make them key players in the Middle East The Arabian Sea which divides the Gulf and the Indian…
I was recently reminded of this interview I did for BBC Mundo (Spanish language version of BBC) last year on the subject of China –Zambia…
In September 2012 the Russian Far Eastern Pacific port Vladivostok hosted the annual APEC summit. The meeting coincided with a new billion dollar bridge being…
China has taken an increasingly influential role in Nigeria. Trade between the two countries totalled $8.2 billion in 2011, just behind Angola and South Africa,…
Chinese banks have outstripped the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the World Bank’s lending in Latin America over the last five years, putting China in…