Belt and Road

By Tetsushi Kajimoto FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the world's top economies on Sunday adopted new principles to ensure countries that lend and borrow for infrastructure spending do so in a sustainable manner, a move seen as addressing conc…

There is a clear favorite among the seven candidates in this Sunday’s election in Kazakhstan – incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev – who took office after the surprise resignation of his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The former parliament speaker c…

Published: 1:00pm, 8 Jun, 2019 Updated: 1:00pm, 8 Jun, 2019

Author: Vivienne Bath, University of Sydney The prospect of disputes arising in respect of projects under Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has generated considerable interest, accompanied by positioning on the part of governments, government institution…

Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will recommit the United States on a visit to Bangkok to supporting the development of Southeast Asian nations in the face of a rising China, an official said Thursday. Pompeo will travel to the Thai capital …

There is little substantial evidence for the efficacy of many treatments in traditional Chinese medicine.Credit: VCG/Getty Donkeys are a hot item in Africa. In the past few years, prices for the animals and their hides have jumped so high that people have be…

By simply remembering the 1989 murder of hundred of thousands (no official estimate exists) of pro-democracy activists that ended seven weeks of protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the people of Hong Kong on Tuesday struck fear in the heart of Chinese Pre…

That’s according to the secretary general of the China Overseas Development Association (CODA), He Zhenwei, who talked to RIA Novosti ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Trade between China and the US mainly relies on small and …

For years, the Hungarian government has been trying to forge a closer partnership with China, yet it has very little to show for it. The latest flagship project of Hungary-China cooperation, the planned Budapest-Belgrade railway is a prime example of why the …

Yves here. The US military, having gotten mired in a series of neverending but costly misadventures in the Middle East, is now proposing to double down on failure, or at best mediocrity. Even though though US forces are badly overextended, the National Defens…