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 ...

Russia and China would be the first nuclear powers to sign a treaty barring use of the weapons in Southeast Asia.

Unlike most recent Chinese maps that encircle the South China Sea with a “nine-dash line,” the line on the new map has 10 dashes, although China has used the 10-dash line in the past.

China’s revised 2023 map adds another dash to the nine previous dashes delineating its claim to the South China Sea. The new 10-dash line expands its reach into Vietnamese, Malaysian and ...

Writers, translators, editors and publishers working on such exchanges are cartographers, who map China and its orientation ...

China maintains the world's largest fleet of civilian research vessels, and the CSIS report said that at least 80 percent of 64 such vessels operating globally since 2020 have displayed "warning ...