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Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni (in hat) and Wang Yang, China's third vice premier, inaugurate a Chinese-funded 51-km expressway linking Uganda's capital to the international airport at Entebbe, June 15, 2018.

Debt-trapped: Sri Lanka, Laos, and now Uganda?

Southeast Asia should take note of the potential takeover of an airport by Chinese lenders, Zachary Abuza says.

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with China's President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Nov. 15, 2021.

UPDATED: US, China solidify strategies toward each other amid low-key diplomacy

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai is shown at a women's singles match at Wimbledon in a file photo.

Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli: why didn’t she just leave?

Efforts to end the world’s reliance on coal face challenge in Asia-Pacific

2021-11-11

A freshwater Siamese crocodile, a critically endangered species native to southeast Asia, seen at Kaeng Krachan National Park in central Thailand, Jan. 23, 2021.

Numerous endangered species in SE Asia face extinction, studies show

2021-11-03

Residents travel by boat in Bulacan, one of the provinces north of Manila, where some areas have sunk by four to six centimeters (1.5 to 2.4 inches) a year since 2003, according to satellite monitoring, Feb. 3, 2019.

Climate change: the implications for regional security

2021-11-01

A woman uses a light bulb powered by portable battery as she prepares dishes in an earlier morning at a restaurant during a blackout in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning Province, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021.

China's Blackouts Break Power Cutoff Pledge

2021-10-15

Workers sit on logs being loaded at a holding area along the Yangon river in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2015 file photo.

Myanmar's forests under pressure from illegal logging, smuggling

2021-10-11

A police officer talks to people that have gathered at the Evergrande headquarters building in Shenzhen, southeastern China as the Chinese property giant said it is facing “unprecedented difficulties," Sept. 15, 2021

Social unrest is Beijing's chief concern in dealing with Evergrande's debt debacle

2021-10-08

China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) oil storage facilities in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong province are seen in this file photo.

China Sells Strategic Oil As Prices Surge

2021-10-08

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