Belt and Road

A new study claimed that China’s Belt and Road Initiative has caused dozens of countries to accumulate $385 billion in “hidden debts” to Beijing. AidData, an international development research lab based at Virginia’s College of William & Mary, revealed that the debt had slipped through the scrutiny of international lenders…

A new report titled, Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects, represents the most comprehensive effort yet to quantify and analyze China’s overseas investments. It was produced by AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary in…

Synopsis As new geopolitical and geo-economic realities emerge in the Indo-Pacific, India is now a critical node in the emerging network of variable geometries in the region. There are important opportunities in the evolving dynamic for New Delhi, as new alliances are crafted and new goals enunciated.Expectations were high as…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. BEIJING: China plays a major and constructive role in promoting peaceful development of the world as well as in addressing regional and global problems, experts and politicians have said on the occasion of the International Day of Peace. Peace is a fundamental…

EU will not fund “perfect roads” to link Chinese mines to Chinese ports Recognizing China’s head start and the need for a distinct EU response, von der Leyen remarked, “We are good at financing roads. But it does not make sense for Europe to build a perfect road between a…

Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said on Tuesday that India's concerns over China's Belt and Road Initiative supporting Afghanistan are "inappropriate," according to The Global Times. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, 139 countries had signed agreements with China as of March, with China assisting these countries in the…

CSB holds talk on country's foreign policies (with photos) **********************************************************      The Civil Service Bureau today (September 14) held a thematic talk delivered by Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative…

SHANGHAI: Bank of China (BoC) , a top global investor in coal- power plants, must end the financing of such projects outside the mainland and support clean and renewable energy instead, an alliance of 35 non-governmental organisations said on Tuesday. The comments, made in an open letter to state-controlled BoC's…

Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 13 Sep 2021 7:30AM · Located in Cambodia’s capital, the Morodok Techo National Stadium resembles a sailing ship, symbolising the two nations long-standing friendship as Chinese people used to travel to Cambodia by boat, officials say. – EPA pic, September 13, 2021. CHINA…

‘Would Allow China to Have Direct Oil Access’: Antonio Graceffo on Beijing’s Interest in Afghanistan In this episode, we sat down with China economic analyst Dr. Antonio Graceffo. He touched on Beijing’s interest in Afghanistan, what some of those risks are, and how Beijing’s plan of global dominance through the…