Belt and Road

London think tank tracks last year’s progress of flagship Chinese investment plan, finds about 15 ran into trouble Pandemic contributed to some, but not all, of the problems plaguing projects worth more than US$2.4 billion Published: 6:00am, 7 Feb, 2021 Updated: 9:15am, 7 Feb, 2021 Read More

BEIJING, Jan. 26: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on China and Belarus to boost high-quality development of bilateral Belt and Road cooperation. In his telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Xi also urged the two sides to make solid progress in the construction of China-Belarus industrial park.…

Renewable power has for the first time made up the bulk of China’s Belt and Road Initiative energy investments as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a shift away from fossil fuels, new analysis showed. The share of wind, solar and hydropower made up 57 per cent, or about $11bn, of China’s…

Beijing — A government-backed coalition of international advisors to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has recommended that China apply more stringent environmental controls over its overseas investments. If adopted, this would be a major departure from China's usual approach of deferring to host country rules, many of them inadequate,…

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Crisis erupted last week when Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli decided he could no longer work with rival factions within his Nepal Communist Party Beijing responded by sending Guo Yezhou, a vice-minister in the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department to Kathmandu Topic |   Nepal E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 10:13pm, 31 Dec, 2020…

China’s grand belt and road plan to connect the world has hit plenty of bumps. Photo: Xinhua The multibillion-dollar connectivity plan has been beset with problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic this year But the global health crisis is only one of the stumbling blocks faced by Xi Jinping’s grand…

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Sri Lanka run up debts of US$1.3 billion to build the port. Photo: Xinhua The tyre plant will be built near the Hambantota port, which heightened concerns in the West over Beijing’s lending and influence Colombo was forced to hand over the site after it became unable to service the…