China is locking the gates to stop expertise and capital in strategic industries from fleeing. The country accused of industrial-scale intellectual property theft now fears the West will take its own. For decades, China has faced...
The New Delhi Declaration reveals both the possibilities and the limits of a changing world order—and the extraordinary balancing act India must perform within it. There are moments in international diplomacy when what is not...
Canada is facing new US import penalties after Prime Minister Mark Carney refused to match US tariffs on China. Other countries are watching as the Trump trade clash turns into a fight over economic sovereignty....
The latest assessments of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank suggest that the defining challenge of the coming decade is not merely sustaining GDP growth, but improving its quality,...
With China dominating every step of the solar energy production chain, governments in India and Europe are looking to reduce their overreliance on a single supplier. In December 2025, Italy awarded more than 1.1 gigawatts...
Countries across the region are expanding defense cooperation in ways that change the South China Sea equation but fall short of a new anti-China bloc. For years, the South China Sea has been seen as a potential...
Hot on the heels of Donald Trump’s visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping. DW explores how China’s trade and financial support is helping keep Russia’s economy afloat. Russia may...
Beijing now has strong new powers to punish firms for pulling manufacturing out of China. Multinationals are increasingly caught in a web of coercion and complex rules as they try to operate across the US,...
“The old world is dying. The new world is slow to emerge. And in this twilight, monsters arise,” wrote Antonio Gramsci in the 1930s in his Prison Notebooks. But one might also add that opportunities...
Temu, Shein and other companies are set to be affected by handling fees for non-EU small packages from November 1. The fee will be charged in addition to a customs tax on such items that...
Squeezed by Trump’s tariffs and China’s industrial muscle, the EU and Australia bury old trade disputes to finalize a long-delayed free trade deal. After nearly a decade of stop-start negotiations, the EU-Australia free trade deal has...
Japan and South Korea are seeking to strengthen cooperation amid growing geopolitical risks and Tokyo’s worsening relations with Beijing. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met in Nara, Takaichi’s hometown, on...