Belt and Road

The EU unveiled its "Global Gateway" project this week, which is seen as a European alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But is the EU’s €300 billion plan a serious threat to Beijing’s influence extension initiative?  Everyone wants their own Silk Road. Nearly a decade after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed…

The European Union (EU) has revealed details of a €300bn (£255bn; $340bn) global investment plan, described as a “true alternative” to China’s Belt and Road strategy. European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, said the Global Gateway scheme should become a trusted brand. China has funded rail, roads and ports…

One reason for Indonesia’s dramatic reversal might lie in the Donald Trump administration’s transactional and “America First” foreign policy, which sidelined U.S.-Indonesia relations. From Jakarta’s vantage point, it was not relevant to Washington until Pompeo publicly sought to resist China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea in October 2020.…

Published: 2:23am, 2 Dec, 2021 Updated: 3:37am, 2 Dec, 2021 Read More

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh speaks during a news conference as the last stop on his three-country Latin America tour to promote a G7's infrastructure program aimed at countering China's Belt and Road initiative in Panama City, Panama, (REUTERS) A U.S. delegation led by President Joe…

The Taliban has already expressed interest in Chinese investments and in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has pledged support and assistance to the Taliban in a meeting in Doha. Coming three months after Mr. Wang hosted the Taliban in Tianjin, near Beijing, in late…

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…