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Column: Belt and Road projects drive global infrastructure connectivity Belt and Road

Column: Belt and Road projects drive global infrastructure connectivity

An aerial drone photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the Phnom Penh toll station on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway, a project under the Belt and Road Initiative, is invested by the China Road and Bridge Corporation under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model and is…
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October 31, 2025
Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa Belt and Road

Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa

Africa needs energy. Nearly 600 million Africans—half the continent’s population—are without electricity, largely because of the continent’s limited distribution network, and Africans make up the vast majority of those worldwide without electricity access. But the European Union wants to change this. At the end of September, the president of the…
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October 9, 2025
From the Andes to the Amazon: Investigating China’s climate impact in Latin America Belt and Road

From the Andes to the Amazon: Investigating China’s climate impact in Latin America

Through innovative co-writing partnerships that bridge linguistic and political divides, our fellows explore the complex realities of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects, energy investments, and development policies create vastly different environmental impacts across communities in Latin America. Our panelists will discuss their collaborative reporting methodology, reveal…
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October 3, 2025
The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development Belt and Road

The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development

Skip to content China has invested more than $1 trillion in overseas infrastructure projects through its massive Belt and Road Initiative. Chinese corporations are building roads and railways, dams and ports, in developing countries around the world – an initiative marked by both its enormity and opacity. Executive editor Vernon…
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September 23, 2025
BRI seminar participants from Egypt inspect shipbuilding industry in Fujian Belt and Road

BRI seminar participants from Egypt inspect shipbuilding industry in Fujian

Fujian, China – The Egyptian delegation taking part in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) seminar in Fujian Province paid a visit this week to the Fujian Boyang Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd, where they toured the company’s dockyard and examined the shipbuilding and maritime services operations that form a vital…
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September 18, 2025
From megaprojects to green corridors, Belt and Road enters a new phase Belt and Road

From megaprojects to green corridors, Belt and Road enters a new phase

As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) enters its second decade, its playbook is changing.  HSBC Global Investment Research’s latest report describes how the Belt and Road Initiative is moving from state-led megaprojects towards smaller, greener and more tech-focused investments driven by private capital. Released just in time ahead of…
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September 9, 2025
China’s Fujian province to host investment seminar for 6 BRI nations Belt and Road

China’s Fujian province to host investment seminar for 6 BRI nations

The International Economic Cooperation Center of Fujian Province will host a seminar for officials from six Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries starting on Sept. 10, aimed at enhancing their capacity to attract investment and sharing China’s experience in economic development. The “Seminar on Capacity Enhancement in Investment Attraction for…
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September 5, 2025
Pakistan, China, Afghanistan vow stronger joint counterterrorism, agree on expanding CPEC to Kabul Belt and Road

Pakistan, China, Afghanistan vow stronger joint counterterrorism, agree on expanding CPEC to Kabul

FM Dar presses Kabul for ‘concrete and verifiable’ measures against TTP, BLA Muttaqi reaffirms Afghanistan’s commitment not to let tis soil be used for terrorism against any country Three sides reaffirm cooperation in boosting trade, transit and regional connectivity, CPEC extension to Kabul China pushes for stronger cooperation under Belt…
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August 20, 2025