Charged Affairs, Washington, 23 February 2025) The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID and foreign aid programs could reshape U.S. global influence, with a focus on strategic investments over humanitarian assistance. The shift may open opportunities for China to expand its influence,...
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2025/03/04
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/05/31
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
(ABC News, Washington, 27 May 2024) After Lithuania allowed Taiwan's de-facto embassy in Vilnius to bear the name Taiwan, instead of Taipei — Taiwan's capital city — as preferred by Beijing, Lithuanian businesses saw their cargo shipments to and from China stranded, and they were warned by...
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2024/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Talk Business, Arkansas, 7 March 2024) International Women’s Day provides the opportunity to highlight the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and to address the diverse challenges women face every day. For the last 25 years, EXIM's Minority- and Women-Owned Business...
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2024/03/30
Country: Netherlands, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 1 March 2024) Lenders to TotalEnergies SE’s Mozambique liquefied natural gas project are weighing the release of billions of dollars in funding as the company plans to resume construction three years after development was halted by Islamist insurgent attacks. The planned onshore...
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2024/03/30
Country: Canada, China
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Yahoo Finance, New York, 26 March 2024) A Canadian watchdog is calling for penalties against Dynasty Gold Corp. after it concluded the company used forced labor at its Chinese mine, which the miner denies. The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, an arm of the federal government...
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2023/11/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Transparency
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 3 November 2023) Canada’s export financing agency applies its own flagship environmental and social review process in less than 1% of the transactions it supports, the Auditor-General of Canada’s office has found. An audit report released to Parliament Thursday...
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2023/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Trade Finance Global, London, 8 March 2023) President and Chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Reta Jo Lewis gave a keynote address to the Trade Finance Global’s Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments roundtable, urging multilateral organisations to take strides towards...
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2022/08/30
Country: Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, European Union, Human Rights
(Sky News, London, 3 August 2022) The UKEF credit facilities comprise up to £2.3bn for the financing of military contracts identified by the Ukrainian government, with the remaining £700m earmarked for reconstruction projects. Insiders speculated that companies such as BAE Systems and Babcock...
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2022/03/30
Country: Korea, Russia, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Asia Financial, London & Hong Kong, 4 March 2022) South Korea said on Friday that it had won an exemption from expanded US export restrictions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Friday. The exemption means Korean companies won’t have to secure...
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2022/03/30
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(CBC, Winnipeg, 9 March 2022) In December 2020 Export Development Canada — a federal Crown credit corporation — signed a guarantee to back half of a $14-million loan to Winnipeg's 97% Russian owned Buhler Industries to support the company's ongoing operations. The manufacturer of farming...
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2022/01/31
Country: China, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Epoch Times, New York, 10 January 2022) Commentary: Thomas McArdle - While it’s bad enough that President Joe Biden has nominated in Reta Jo Lewis a longtime, committed appeaser of the oppressive, genocidal, and expansionist People’s Republic of China to chair the Export-Import Bank of the...
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2021/12/31
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Epoch Times, Washington, 22 December 2021) Lithuania's regional and economic stability is facing challenges from the Chinese regime for allowing self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a runaway province, to open a de facto embassy in its capital Vilnius. In response, China recalled its...
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2021/11/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Reuters, Vilnius, 19 November 2021) Lithuania will sign a $600 million export credit agreement with the U.S. Export-Import Bank next week, Economy Minister Ausrine Armonaite told Reuters, days after China warned it would "take all necessary measures" after Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a de...
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2021/03/31
Country: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2021) French energy major Total has been forced to suspend operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique for the second time this year, after a fresh attack by insurgents which killed dozens of local and foreign citizens,...
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