The World Health Organization is looking to move Emergency Medical Teams into Myanmar amid reports of insufficient medical ...

China could look to sectors that it already leads — like agriculture and public health — in places like Southeast Asia, South ...

Instead of spurring political liberalization, China’s integration into the global economy spawned a more repressive state ...

Several countries have pledged humanitarian aid to Myanmar after a deadly earthquake struck the Southeast Asian nation on ...

The US canceled two aid projects in Cambodia in late February — one to encourage child literacy and another to improve nutrition and development for kids under five. A week later, China’s aid ...

A week later, China’s aid agency announced funding for programmes to achieve almost identical goals. “Children are the future of the country and the nation,” China’s ambassador to Cambodia ...

The freeze on aid has also endangered the work of groups that document Chinese political repression and human rights abuses, including the China Dissent Monitor at Freedom House. “As far as ...

In our latest Lowy Institute Analysis, Hedging Bets: Southeast Asia’s Approach to China’s Aid, we identify three distinct Southeast Asian modes of engagement with Chinese development finance ...