Belt and Road

It has outpaced the country’s aggregate trade growth by 7.4 percentage points, according to the data. More than $60 billion in investments have been promised under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), said Zou Zhiwu, vice minister of the General Admi…

BEIJING: China's trade with countries participating in its multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has posted "robust growth", totalling $1.34 trillion in 2019, as Beijing seeks to expand its export base away from the lucrative US and EU markets. …

China has spent more than 25 billion dollars on its Belt and Road Initiative. This initiative is designed to create the infrastructure to secure China’s trade routes and energy supplies. It is also being used to increase China's influence in the rest of the world. Many western governments see China's…

The world's transportation network is constantly growing. "Green asphalt" and sustainable bus transportation will ease the environmental impact of future transport routes. The EU has greenlighted two major transport projects for the Norwegian University of S…

By: Reuters | Quetta | Published: January 11, 2020 7:56:32 pm A Pakistani examines the site of Friday’s bomb explosion inside a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. (AP)The death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the southwestern P…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit neighbouring Myanmar next week amid efforts to strengthen relations with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Myanmar has been a close ally in backing China's claims in the South China Sea and a partn…

Promoted as a 21st century version of the ancient Silk Roads, China's Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) aims to improve global connectivity and change the shape of international trade. The multi-billion-dollar project will link China with countries in Southeas…

President Xi Jinping stated in 2019 that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) must be green and sustainable, but much of what Beijing is providing to the countries that form part of the BRI is just the opposite. The China Development Bank and China Export-Impor…

Advertisement Although the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was successful in drawing new participants in other parts of the world over the past year, the ambitious Chinese-led initiative saw waning commitment in some of its South Asian members in 2019. This w…

During my three and a half decades as a career American diplomat, I served as ambassador to Russia and Jordan. Every year, I was responsible for thousands of cables back to the State Department and other readers in the U.S. government, reporting on the effort…