American military sites at key regional hubs like Hawaii or Guam, the U.S.'s westernmost point, were not included in the overseas presence map. Similarly, China's militarized artificial islands in ...

A map, built using international debt data from the World Bank, shows countries that owe public and publicly guaranteed external debt to China at the end of 2023.

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

A consensus is emerging that the world is cleaving into blocs—not only geopolitically but economically, too. In 2020, the economist Douglas Irwin wrote that “the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the world ...

Russia’s spy hunters are increasingly worried about China’s espionage, even as the two countries grow closer. By Jacob JudahPaul Sonne and Anton Troianovski In public, President Vladimir V ...

Global public opinion on China is increasingly coming into focus.The number of surveys measuring citizens’ sentiments toward China has exploded since 2000. The GPOC project’s dataset of nearly 2,500 ...

It is also creating opportunities to redraw the geopolitical map of Asia in China’s favour. ... Mr Xi has been preparing for today’s chaotic world ever since becoming China’s leader in 2012.

A Newsweek map based on World Bank data charts the external debts owed to China by more than 100 countries. Newsweek has contacted the Chinese Foreign Ministry for comment by email. Why It Matters ...