Belt and Road

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 …

Despite contradictions between China and India at the 2 August RCEP summit and New Delhi's refusal to participate in the Beijing-led Belt and Road project, the countries can develop cooperation within the framework of yet another China-proposed endeavour, acc…

Published: 9:00pm, 8 Aug, 2019 Updated: 9:00pm, 8 Aug, 2019

Published: 10:00am, 7 Aug, 2019 Updated: 10:09am, 7 Aug, 2019