Belt and Road

Incomplete rail tracks for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line lay on the ground near Duka Moja, ... Kenya, on Thursday, May 9, 2019. China is now the single largest financier for infrastructure in Africa, funding one-in-five projects and constructing e…

Pakistani investigators have confirmed at least 629 girls and women from across the country were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China in the past 18 months or so. The list of names, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by investigators d…

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for targeted sanctions against Chinese officials involved in the repression of Uighur Muslims. The bill, which also calls on Donald Trump to speak out over the detention of more than one million Musli…

On November 21, Ambassador Alice Wells delivered an address at the Wilson Center in Washington lambasting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Why did Ms. Wells make this speech? And why now? After all, while several Trump administration officials hav…

XI'AN, China, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 27, a number of journalists representing the European Pressphoto Agency, Associated Press, Kazinform, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Nikkei, the Montsame News Agency, and the Russia and China Magazine gathered…

The big picture: There's a new dynamic springing from the trade war that shows China is taking a big interest in shaping global surveillance standards. This could be just a coincidence, but the country is currently expanding its economic influence in underdev…

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (L) greets India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PHOTO: AFP/FILE. NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka’s new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has warned India and Western nations that his country will be forced to seek finance from Chin…

The end of Robert Mugabes brutal 37-year dictatorship over Zimbabwe in 2017 was greeted by scenes of wild jubilation on the streets of Harare by people whod seen their dream of independence from minority white rule turned into tyranny under the aging dictator…

Dont look now, but artificial intelligence is watching you. Artificial intelligence has tremendous power to enhance spying, and both authoritarian governments and democracies are adopting the technology as a tool of political and social control. The potentia…

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here.  Bigger and richer economies should invest in smaller Asian ones if they want to counter Chinas expanding Belt and Road Initiative, Sri Lankan P…