Indian cargo vessels will have access to Chittagong port, long seen as one of China’s “pearls” on the Indian Ocean. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Bangladesh this weekend, where he signed, ...

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The so-called String of Pearls strategy, a metaphor coined in Western policy circles in the early 2000s, is far more than a shipping map. It's Beijing's blueprint for a ...

Chinese Navy Yiyang 548 frigate and Qiandaohu 886 supply vessel are moored in the navy port, Gdynia, Poland, Oct. 7, 2015 (AP photo by Andrzej J. Gojke). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window ...

COLOMBO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - President Mahinda Rajapaksa was emphatic: China's presence in Sri Lanka is strictly business, and not political. Sign up here. Challenged on speculation that China financed ...