Belt and Road

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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…

The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trading bloc have vowed to intensify their digital trade and connectivity links in ways that could rival the corresponding parts of China’s economic Belt and Road Initiative. The declaration this month comes a day after the Asian trade bloc…

More than 600 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region over the past two weeks after a conflict between separatist militants and Ethiopian federal forces broke out on November 4, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday. Ethiopia’s ambassador to China, Teshome Toga Chanaka, said…

By Enda CurranEconomists zeroed in on China’s focus on quality economic growth and its technology ambitions in the 14th five-year plan released Thursday. A communique released after a four-day meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee gave a broad outline of the plan as well as sketching out a vision…

Photograph: Ranu Abhelakh/ReutersGrowing tensions between the US and China have prompted clashes at the United Nations, accusations of spying and rumblings of a global trade war.In Latin America, the rivalry has recently prompted a public relations battle over which superpower could provide ventilators and PPE during the pandemic, outcry over…