China has used its $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative to expand its economic and diplomatic ties worldwide, including in Latin America - a region which the United States has long regarded as its back yard. Over the last 20 years, Beijing engagement has raised concerns in Washington about its...

Institutional investors have poured $1 trillion into companies operating in the coal industry. The United States accounts for 58 percent of that total. Now, the Asian Development Bank and British insurer Prudential plan to buy coal plants in Asia and shut them down over the next 10-15 years....

In Germany, the Social Democrats won the most votes and now start the process of forming a government, ending 16 years of conservative-led rule under Angela Merkel. Whatever the make-up of the new government, it has a huge task ahead leading the world’s fourth biggest economy. Stefan Kooths,...