Belt and Road

Yokohama (Japan) (AFP) - Japan's prime minister on Thursday warned African leaders against accumulating too much debt, in an apparent reference to Chinese infrastructure projects that some blame for damaging the finances of developing nations. Addressing lea…

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A few days ago, the Laos government released a report predicting that the GDP growth rate will be 6.7% in 2019, the industry will become the biggest driving force. It is estimated that the industrial growth rate will be 8.3%. Khanpei…

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to report from the Maybank, Chinas investment in Southeast Asia has been showing good momentum. In the first half of 2019, Chinas investment in Southeast Asia reached USD 11 billion, almost doubling year-on-year. Against th…

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says the U.S. lagging behind Chinas development of a national digital currency could alter the way Western companies transfer payments. Speaking on the Global Coin Research podcast this week, Allaire said China is setting the pace i…

China’s provinces are sending empty freight trains to Europe. Chinese media explains why.China is sending empty freight trains to Europe through one of its key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects: the China-Europe Railway Express. The bizarre phenomenon c…

From Thailand to Kenya, trains run on tracks from steel mills in China’s northeast, a rust-belt region that is trying to capitalize on a multibillion-dollar national initiative to build ports, railways and other projects abroad. Announced in 2012, the Belt a…

Riddle me this, BatmanHeres a hint: its the same country that ranks 42nd in the per capita emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) with per-capital emissions less than half of those of the U.S. Would you believe that the right answer is none other than China? S…

Reuters Sagatom Saha Security, Asia Most Chinese-financed, coal-fired power plants built overseas use low-efficiency, subcritical coal technology, which produces some of the highest emissions of any form of power generation. Thus, China is destroying the e…

Indias nationalist leader celebrated his countrys Independence Day by touting his consolidation of control over territory also claimed by Pakistan as diplomats prepare for a rare United Nations meeting on the controversy. "The rights and responsibilities of…

Last year, the MNC Group said it would receive $500 million in financing from an arm of Metallurgical Corporation of China, a state-owned construction company, to build the theme park. The deal falls under the umbrella of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative, an …