How China’s Data Center Boom Is Forcing a Rethink of Energy Finance and Digital Settlement

How China’s Data Center Boom Is Forcing a Rethink of Energy Finance and Digital Settlement

  • February 16, 2026

China’s accelerating investment in data centers has become one of the defining features of its AI and cloud expansion strategy. As artificial intelligence workloads grow and enterprise digitization deepens, computing infrastructure has moved to the center of industrial policy. Massive server clusters now

China’s Oil for Loan Exposure Faces Uncertainty in a Post Maduro Venezuela

China’s Oil for Loan Exposure Faces Uncertainty in a Post Maduro Venezuela

  • January 8, 2026

China’s long running oil for loan arrangements with Venezuela are facing growing uncertainty as analysts assess how a political transition in Caracas could affect billions of dollars in outstanding obligations. Over the past two decades, Beijing extended large scale financing to Venezuela in