Belt and Road

Japan’s prime minister on Thursday warned African leaders against accumulating too much debt, in an apparent reference to Chinese infrastructure projects. Addressing leaders from several African nations at a development conference in Yokohama, Shinzo Abe sai…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is visiting China for the fifth time in three years since taking office. He has arrived in Beijing seeking to salvage his China policy.The main issue in Sino-Philippine relations remains the settlement of contradictions in…

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…