Belt and Road

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Tuesday ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital. While Tokayev mentioned …

Insights into Editorial: In search of the Wuhan spirit Context: The coastal town of Mamallapuram (aka Mahabalipuram) has pipped the sacred city of Varanasi to host the historic informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President X…

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived here on Tuesday on a two-day visit to China during which he will hold talks with the top Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping, and discuss issues of regional and bilateral significance. Prime Minis…

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (The New York Times) Pakistan will engage China at the highest level for talks on several big projects in the fields of hydropower, oil refinery and steel mills as part of the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corrido…

BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key technology news from the past week: OBSERVATION SATELLITE China sent its observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province a…

The Chinese satellite, Gaofen-10, was launched at 2:51 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. It was the 314th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series. As part of the country's hi…

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to create the infrastructure necessary to connect China to Europe, with the ultimate aim of creating a new Free Trade Area between China and Europe. To all intents and purposes, this enormous project intends to recreate…

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced during a state visit to Beijing on Sept. 23 that Iraq will sign on to Chinas Belt and Road international infrastructure project, according to the Asia Times. Iraq has gone through war and civil strife and is gr…

Adel Abdel Mahdi talks to journalists in Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2015. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters) Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced during a state visit to Beijing on Sept. 23 that Iraq will sign on to Chinas Belt and Road international i…

Africa has become the fastest urbanizing region of the world, with rural migrants moving into cities a clip that has even surpassed that of China and India, as the continent becomes one of the final frontiers of the forth industrial revolution. This rapid tra…