Belt and Road

This is the second of a series of posts regarding the effect of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative on the global economy. (To read the initial post, click here.) The goal of this and future connected blog posts is to help U.S. and international companies underst…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will use a giant import fair in Shanghai next week to try to showcase its free trade credentials, temper criticism of its policies and deepen its global economic influence at a time of fresh uncertainty over the China-U.S. trade war…

This has been a watershed year for tropical forestsand not in a good way. Massive fires have burned through hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforests in Indonesia and Brazil. The result is huge uptick in greenhouse gas emissions due to carbon being releas…

China in Africa. Getty Africa has become the next frontier for infrastructure development. As rural migrants flow into cities at a clip that now exceeds every other region in the world, the continents need for new railways, highways, airports, power plants…

Chinas increasing state-backed media presence in Africa has stoked fears among Western observers. But current evidence shows the plan to increase Chinese soft power through official outlets who portray the Asian giant in a positive light has had limited impac…

YIWU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the largest and most influential daily consumer goods fair in China, the 25th China Yiwu International Commodities (Standards) Fair (Yiwu Fair 2019) concluded on October 25 with great success. With an exhibition area of 100,0…

BEIJING (AP) China's ruling Communist Party is holding a key meeting this week amid a drastically slowing economy, ongoing protests in Hong Kong and pushback abroad against Beijing's global ambitions. The official Xinhua News Agency said the party's 19th Cen…

Published: 11:15pm, 25 Oct, 2019 Updated: 11:15pm, 25 Oct, 2019

(CNN)Issues of a comic book about China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been seized in Malaysia after the government said it "promotes communism and socialism and its content could cause confusion." The comic, written by Malaysian author and politicia…

HEADLINE-GRABBING deals in which Chinese firms promise to build impressive infrastructure in some neglected corner of the world have a habit of unravellingbut usually not so quickly. Last month a local official in the Solomon Islands signed an agreement with …