Belt and Road

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…

SHANGHAI, Dec. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3rd Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum of Tsinghua University, guided by the People's Government of Shanghai, Tsinghua University and the China Association for Social Workers, has been successfully held in Shangha…

DJIBOUTI - Above ground in this tiny but strategically located country, signs of China's presence are everywhere. Chinese entities have financed and built Africa's biggest port, a railway to Ethiopia and the country's first overseas naval base here. Under th…

HONG KONG, Dec. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- "Technology export to Asia and Belt and Road countries is going to be one of the main thrusts for digital insurer ZhongAn in the next few years," said Mr Bill SONG, CEO of ZA Tech Global Limited ("ZA Tech"), an operati…

In recent years, many in the West, especially right-wing populists such as US President Donald Trump, have accused China of trying to have its cake and eat it too. And there is some truth to these charges of opportunism. Portraying itself as a "developing co…

Advertisement One of the pillars of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that remains continually overlooked is people-to-people ties. P2P, to use the shorthand, is about building social, cultural, and digital entanglements. Social scientists have long unde…