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India after the Tianjin summit and in the midst of the climate crisis – an overview

29 September 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar

On China’s initiative, the Tianjin Summit was held on 31 August and 1 September 2025, within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). India was invited to attend. Sushovan Dhar, a political activist and trade unionist in (…)
BRICS 2025 Questions and Answers Series (Part 4)

China and the IMF, supported by BRICS+, provided a lifeline to Javier Milei’s far-right government in Argentina

26 September 2025 - by Eric Toussaint

In September 2025, after having presided over the country since December 2023, the neo-fascist Javier Milei suffered an electoral defeat in an important vote. The result was the election in the province of Buenos Aires. This election renewed 46 (…)
Why Does Historian Eric Toussaint Accuse China, India And Russia of Being "Silent Accomplices” in the Horror in Palestine?

27 August 2025 - by Eric Toussaint

While the skies over Gaza are stained red and Palestinian children die under the rubble, the emerging powers of the planet — the BRICS — prefer to look the other way. Have they become silent accomplices to one of the greatest crimes of our era? (…)
Lower-income country debt payments by creditor grouping

13 August 2025 - by Debt Justice

Lower-income country external debt payments to private lenders are three times higher than to Chinese lenders. Various reporting on the debt crisis in the global south casts China as the largest lender. This is not true. While China is a (…)
On a Dying Multilateralism

9 July 2025 - by Walden Bello

The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to the question of the deployment of military (…)
“America First” and the Great Upheaval in International Relations

14 March 2025 - by Gilbert Achcar

The “America First” logic, adopted by the US neofascist movement known as MAGA, may seem rational to those who are not familiar with the economic history of international relations. According to Trump and his acolytes, America has spent huge sums (…)
Trouble at the tip of the Belt and Road: South Africa’s largest industrial mega-project meets eco-social resistance

14 January 2025 - by Patrick Bond

China’s Belt and Road Initiative has many components, but in Africa, one stands out for its oft-promised mix of industrial development (since 2017) and an ambitious solar energy source (since 2022), together termed the Musina-Makhado Special (…)
Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power

21 November 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to get the most of them through ruthless exploitation whereas the World Bank, the IMF, the Paris Club, that bring together (…)
PRC 75 today

1 October 2024 - by Michael Roberts

Today is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The survival of the PRC is now longer than the Soviet Union, which lasted 74 years. China has nearly one-fifth of the world’s population and on some measures (…)
The Latin American Left amid China, the United States, late progressivism and the far Right

24 September 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

Claudio Katz has just published a book in Spanish entitled America Latina en la encrucijada global [1] (Latin America at the Global Crossroads). Claudio Katz is a Marxist economist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, author of some (…)
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation evades contradictions at the end of the Belt and Road: Chinese investment, finance and trade controversies in Southern Africa

22 September 2024 - by Patrick Bond

Introduction The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in early September follows a markedly unsuccessful Dakar FOCAC in 2021 (where Chinese investment commitments dropped radically), in turn following overhyped events in Beijing in 2018 (…)
[Part 4] Questions and answers on China : Could China lend differently?

26 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to take advantage of them through ruthless exploitation, whereas the World Bank, the IMF, and the Paris Club, which comprise (…)
[Part 3] Questions/Answers on China : Is China doing what the World Bank, IMF and US are doing?

23 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to get the best of them through ruthless exploitation, whereas the World Bank, the IMF, and the Paris Club, which comprise the (…)
[Part 2] Questions/Answers on China : How does China lend?

18 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to get the most of them through ruthless exploitation, whereas the World Bank, the IMF, and the Paris Club, which comprise (…)
[Part 1] Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power by Éric Toussaint

14 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to get the most of them through ruthless exploitation whereas the World Bank, the IMF, the Paris Club, that bring together (…)
A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania

10 February 2024 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN

Tanzania was one of the most heavily targeted countries of a huge scramble for farmland around the world that followed the food and financial crises of 2008 and that was supposed to help solve global food insecurity. The large farm projects, (…)
China: consumption or investment?

3 August 2023 - by Michael Roberts

In Q2 2023 the Chinese economy expanded by 6.3% year-on-year, up from 4.5% yoy recorded in Q1. Sounds strong, but quarterly growth was only 0.8%, slowing sharply from 2.2% qoq in the first quarter of 2023. And a reliable measure of economic (…)
China Seduces Africa: a Love Story or a Honey Pot? Is it that Simple?

5 July 2023 - by Pierre-François Grenson

Shortly before 2010, China became Africa’s leading tradingpartner, ahead of the United States and Europe [1]. Since then, China’s expansion on the African continent has continued and grown. [2]Between 2000 and 2020, Chinese financialinstitutions (…)
Developing debt disaster

20 June 2023 - by Michael Roberts

Next week 300 international organisations and 100 heads of state meet in Paris to discuss how “to build a more responsive, fairer and more inclusive international financial system to fight inequalities, finance the climate transition, and bring (…)
Pakistan’s debt from China becomes burden as CPEC does not generate enough growth

16 May 2023 - by Abdul Khaliq

Since 2013, Pakistan’s historical relationship with China has taken on a geopolitical role through the launch of the China-led infrastructure connectivity project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key part of the Belt and Road (…)
China’s Overseas Investment in the Belt and Road Era

4 May 2023 - by Globalization Monitor

This report aims to provide an overview of some of the issues involved related to Chinese overseas investment and the consequences for recipient countries, the people and the environment. It is hoped that awareness can be raised with a view to (…)
The G7 prepares a divide-and-conquer trap, as BRICS countries spall, fall and try to reconstitute

24 June 2022 - by Patrick Bond

On Friday June 24, a hasty one-day virtual summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa will occur, hosted by Xi Jinping. The date is important because on Monday June 26, two of the three intrinsically pro-Western leaders from the bloc – (…)
Rio Linglong: Eco Uprising in Serbia

12 December 2021 - by Nenad Glišić

The case of the brutal exploitation of Vietnamese workers in the Chinese company LingLong and the servile attitude of the authorities towards the interests of the multinational company Rio Tinto have become central political topics in Serbia. The (…)
China at a turning point?

6 October 2021 - by Michael Roberts

The debt problems afflicting China’s real estate market deepened this week after another property developer defaulted on its bonds and the world’s most heavily indebted property group Evergrande extended a suspension of its shares into a second (…)
The debt of integration: Montenegro’s Chinese loan and the traps of Europe

12 July 2021 - by Tijana Okić

The Balkans debt crisis continues to ravage the economies of the region, with Montenegro vainly turning to the EU for a bailout on multi-billion euro debts to Chinese contractors (Exim bank of China) on what is essentially part of the EU-imposed (…)