The Black Sea shipping route is now the world's deadliest, with over 570 ships hit and 40 sailors killed in 2026.
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Its bountiful resources and vast population are attractive, but its government is a nightmare 
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The domestic agriculture sector has shifted from exporting raw commodities to building value-added products and brands. Hong Kong, with its trade links and professional services, helps propel mainland goods onto the world stage.
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Driven by China Plus One strategies, ASEAN trade and FDI are booming—but closing the region’s trade finance gap hinges on digital reform.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned earlier this summer that “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes” and called on countries to end their dependency on planet-heating fossil fuels. “The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is.
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Jakarta has serious questions to answer about the credibility of its capital markets and the effectiveness of the institutions responsible for regulating them.
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As US sanctions expand to Iran's rail sector, Tehran is relying more heavily on overland links with China and Central Asia. But capacity constraints, delays and costs limit rail's ability to replace maritime trade.
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Five-year cooperation agreement to drive access to affordable tech for Brazilian farmers by combining skills from both countries.
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The West Asia and Russia-Ukraine conflicts, together with El Niño, are testing the limits of both fossilisation of farming systems and the growing fuelisation of food
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By Kopano Gumbi South African cherry farmer Gert Eastes has spent 12 years preparing to break into China. Now, with Beijing introducing a zero-tariff scheme for qualifying South African exports and opening its market to the country's cherries for the first time, that effort looks close to paying off.
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Key Takeaways Rather than seeing a transfer of dominance from Russia to China, Central Asia is moving toward multipolarity: While Russia retains extensive security, economic, and human ties, China has become a structural component of the regional economy through trade, energy, and infrastructure. The deeper shift is that no single power monopolizes the region, creating… Continue reading Central Asia in an Emerging International Order: Shifting Strategic Partnerships with the GCC
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Chinese chicken exports are booming, doubling since 2020. Learn how cheap protein is impacting global markets and sparking anti-dumping scrutiny.
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Fertilizer producers in southeast Asia are moving to establish a regional industry body as the sector faces down geopolitical disruption, raw material constraints, climate change and food security concerns.
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The Treasury Department’s proposed restrictions on U.S. investment in Chinese biopharma collide with Beijing’s new export curbs on cutting edge biotech innovations.
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China’s egg industry is shifting its focus from production volumes to product quality, traceability, branding and digitalisation as producers face price volatility, narrow margins and risks associated with capacity expansion.
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Selon la DHL Initiative on Globalization, la croissance des échanges de la Chine a dépassé les attentes en 2025 et devrait s'accélérer en 2026, l'Asie du Sud-Est, menée par le Vietnam et l'Indonésie, s'imposant comme un pôle majeur de la croissance du commerce mondial.
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Malaysia has emerged as a key player in rare earth supply chain diversification, expanding refining and processing capacity outside China. Its rise reflects decades of international cooperation, but future progress will require navigating its close ties with China.
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Ageing crude carriers and higher oil prices are helping to fuel demand for new vessels, according to analysts.
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Iraq has lost around USD60 billion during the Middle East war, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Thursday, with Iran blockading a waterway that is crucial to global energy flows.
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Tainted vegetables are the focus of the latest scandal
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Trade between Brazil and China reached a record $143.3 billion in the first nine months of 2026, reinforcing China's position as Brazil's largest trading partner. Brazilian exports to the Chinese market totaled $84.7 billion between January and September, an increase of 12 percent compared with the same period in 2025. Imports from China rose 9.9 percent to $58.6 billion.
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China's state traders book more US soybean cargoes, pushing purchases toward 15 million tonnes under the trade truce.
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Exploring how rural digitalization influences the green transformation of cultivated land and its spatial spillover effects holds significant implications for resolving the contradiction between cultivated land conservation and sustainable agricultural development, as well as advancing agricultural and rural modernization. With an emphasis on its underlying mechanisms, regional heterogeneity, and spatial spillover effects, this paper systematically examines how rural digitalization affects the greening transformation of cultivated land using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces over the 2011–2023 period and econometric techniques.
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Chinese food and agribusiness companies are well placed to benefit from new dividend to be found in food security, the new global middle class, and in supply chains.
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The region must align electrification, decarbonisation and resilience through markets and institutions built for scale
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