Belt and Road

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…

KHORGOS, Kazakhstan—To better understand the future of China’s role in Central Asia, and the world, you need to come here, the middle of nowhere. Straddling the Kazakh-Chinese border, a collection of cranes, railways, and buildings rises out of a barren stret…

Desertification was an early priority for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Credit: Zhao Changchun/Xinhua/Zuma The story of the number theorist Jingrun Chen will be familiar to most readers in China. Chen, a prodigious talent, spent a lifetime working on Goldb…

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here.  Japan believes China could use its global Belt and Road infrastructure initiative to push its Peoples Liberation Army into the Indian and Pacif…

China’s active diplomatic efforts in trying to resolve the “Rohingya” issue can facilitate a rapprochement between Myanmar and Bangladesh that strengthens their trilateral cooperation through the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and secures a second corridor …

China will inject new impetus into climate change efforts after 2020, and use its Belt and Road initiative to boost cooperation in the fight against global warming, State Councillor Wang Yi, the country's top diplomat, said in a statement.  China has promise…