China has offered Jamaica loans and expertise to build new highways, donated security equipment to military and police forces throughout the Caribbean and dispatched large shipments of test kits, masks and ventilators to help governments in the region respond to the pandemic. Above, a Chinese cargo plane delivering medical equipment at the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti in May.
Our reporter looks at what has become a new front in the U.S.-China rivalry.
Here’s what else is happening
Nagorno-Karabakh war: The president of Azerbaijan claimed on Sunday that his forces had captured the strategically important hilltop town of Shusha, known as Shushi to Armenians. The town, overlooking several mountain valleys and Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital, Stepanakert, is considered a linchpin to military control of the region.
Ethiopia reshuffle: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed undertook a major reshuffle of the security services on Sunday, days after he ordered a military offensive in the Tigray region, which edged the country toward a potential all-out civil war. He replaced the head of intelligence and the army chief, appointed a new federal police commissioner and chose a new cabinet minister for foreign affairs, naming the former one as his national security adviser.
Afghanistan violence: A series of attacks in Kabul within the span of a week — on university students, a famous journalist and the father of a mayor — has exposed growing, and very public, discontent with a national government unable to fulfill its promises to protect the people.
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