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  1. 01INVESTIGATION: Beijing cuts Africa to 2.1 billion in loans but moors Latin America to Chancay
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INVESTIGATION: Beijing cuts Africa to 2.1 billion in loans…

2.1 billion — the lowest figure in almost twenty years, according…

Maxime Marquette · August 18, 2026
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ANALYSIS: Marcos Talks Drilling With Beijing While His Fishermen Are Kept Off a $3 Trillion Sea

That is what moves through the South China Sea every year. Gulf oil, Taiwanese chips, Brazilian soy, the containers that end up in our garages and our kitchens — all of it funnels through one corridor of warm water that China claims almost in its entirety.

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