China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...

A new report based on thousands of previously unseen Chinese government documents shows how Beijing is selling its authoritarian political model to the Global South -- and Eastern Europe and ...

Feb. 23, 2010 — -- China's Communist Party is omnipotent.It can move mountains, as it did when it built the world's largest hydroelectric plant on the Yangtze River. It can build the world's ...

For a small show, “China at the Center: Rare Ricci and Verbiest World Maps” covers a lot of territory—literally. Dating from 1602 and 1674, the two maps are roughly 12 feet across and 5 to 6 ...

China’s money has made it harder for Western-led institutions like the World Bank to demand economic reforms and environmental standards. In all, China was the largest investor in five of the 10 ...