Belt and Road

(This story originally appeared in on Apr 19, 2020)NEW DELHI: India’s decision on Saturday to amend FDI rules requiring government approval for entities from countries that share a land border — read more specifically as China — is not only an attempt to protect vulnerable assets from predatory acquisitions but…

A media research group has released the transcript of a China-produced Arabic-language news report to show how Beijing’s propaganda machine is blaming the coronavirus on America. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which monitors TV and social media in the Arab world, focused on a March 17 broadcast of…

CHINA: Coronavirus runs roughshod over debt-laden belt and road projects. BRI countries such as Montenegro, already deeply indebted to Beijing, face mounting difficulties related to the pandemic as commodity prices plunge, trade falters and exchange rates shift. “A debt crisis with Chinese characteristics?” warned Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World…

In 2014, the tiny Eastern European country of Montenegro saw an opportunity to catapult onto the world stage when it borrowed US$750 million from China to build a highway between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia. The highway, funded as part of President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative, would…

To understand the post-COVID-19 world that is coming, there is one important human statistic we must bear in mind: 330 million people live in the U.S.; 1.4 billion in China and approximately 6 billion in the rest of the world. These 6 billion, who live in 191 countries, have begun…

SINGAPORE/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Last month, six Chinese medical professionals stepped off an Air Serbia jet in Belgrade to a red-carpet welcome from President Aleksandar Vucic and an array of cabinet ministers. After elbow-bump greetings, Vucic kissed Serbia’s flag, then China’s. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask passes by…

China has committed to invest over USD 60 billion in Pakistan as part of the CPEC under which it planned to build a number of special economic zones.​Asim Saleem Bajwa, chairman CPEC Authority, in a tweet on Wednesday rejected reports about the adverse impact of the coronavirus on CPEC projects.PTI|Last…

Skip to content This is what globalism looks like The Chinese Government’s dominance of propaganda is as slick as it is nearly invisible and you wouldn’t think that Chinese propaganda had dug its claws as deep and wide as they have.And as the Chinese Belt and Road initiative plows a…

Features | Diplomacy | East Asia Possible post-pandemic scenarios for China’s long-term foreign policy strategy. A masked man walks past a national flag outside a traditional medicine hospital in Beijing on March 3, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han GuanThe COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly looking like a watershed, one of those moments in history that…

Trans-Pacific View | Diplomacy | Economy Insights from Matthew P. Goodman. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ SaadsuddozaiTrans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Matthew P. Goodman – Senior Vice President in charge of Asian economics…