Belt and Road

The crisis in Hong Kong is once again focusing attention on China's leadership. How far will Beijing go to stop the continuing protests? Many residents worry about losing freedom under the weight of a dominating, repressive power as Beijing seeks to assert it…

This story is part of a CBC News series exploring China's expanding influence around the world and how Canada and other countries are contending with China's growing power. They come by the busloads to the rugged hills of Shaanxi Province, more than 2,000 po…

Ever since Kosovo declared independence in 2008 from Serbia, it has focused its foreign policy on achieving international recognition. Today, its foreign ministry claims that 116 countries have recognised its sovereignty. Serbia, which rejected its secession…

2019 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission "- China's goal to establish a leading position in the economic and military use of outer space, or what Beijing calls its "space dream," is a core component of its aim to real…

Fred Dufour/Getty This week saw a slew of events that embarrassed China on the world stage. It faced a brutal New York Times exposé about its oppression of Uighur Muslims, the passing of US legislation to protect Hong Kong protesters, and a…

The ambitious multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) exemplifies what happens when one de-links investment and development from established best practices and infrastructure growth, a senior US official has said. The CPEC was launched in 2015 …

By Ayaz Gul November 22, 2019 China and Pakistan urged the United States on Friday "to sift fact from fiction" before questioning their bilateral infrastructure development program, which Beijing is funding under its global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). T…

The United States on Thursday warned Pakistan that it faced long-term economic damage with little return if China keeps pursuing its giant infrastructure push. The top US diplomat for South Asia said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor -- heralded as a game…

Faced with Chinese revisionism and the global retreat of the United States, Europe lacks the geopolitical strength and unity to assume Americas mantle as defender of the rules-based multilateral order. Europe therefore needs friends like Japan, and it is now …

Advertisement On Sunday, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former Sri Lankan defense chief accused of human rights violations, won the countrys presidential elections. Gotabaya rode a wave of Sinhala nationalist sentiment and security concerns, which were made all the m…