Belt and Road

By Philip Wen, Stella Qiu and Yawen Chen ZHENGZHOU, China (Reuters) - For the last decade, the city of Zhengzhou has been getting a taste of the Chinese dream. Fueled by investment, including large subsidies from the central government in Beijing, the provi…

For the Midwest, Epic Flooding Is the Face of Climate Change Wired After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines Grist Doing Justice by Preet Bharara FT. The deck: “An eloquent lesson that the law is only as goo…

NEW DELHI: India has decided to join hands with Japan and Sri Lanka to expand the port in Colombo as part of efforts to balance Chinese inroads into the neighbourhood. This marks one of the government’s first foreign policy moves following its reelection. Sr…

They said that the world’s second largest economy, China, is poised to grow strongly in the next two to four decades thanks to the BRI. “Growth is going to continue to come from China for the next 20, 30, maybe 40 years ... The greatest growth opportunity in…

Though the Suez Canal is still a very tricky passage to navigate, climate change is opening up that shipping lane for longer stretches of the year. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, with the average extent of Arctic sea ice reaching a…

In April 2019 I traveled through northwest Laos to check in on the current state of several cross-border development projects, including the now-completed Namtha dam, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and the construction of a high-speed railwa…

Chinas Belt and Road initiative (BRI) presents a challenge to global efforts to tackle climate change and move toward a carbon neutral pathway. With $900 billion in potential foreign infrastructure spending under the BRI framework indicated by President Xi, C…

Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China is building ties to some of the worlds most authoritarian, financially opaque, and economically backward countries. Rather than exposing itself to massive political, economic, and default risks, Chinese policymakers…

This weeks European Parliament elections will have immediate political consequences for many member states, and will serve as a referendum (paywall) on the 60-year experiment in cross-continental democracy that is the European Union. Thousands of kilometers a…

(Bloomberg) -- India, Japan and Sri Lanka are weighing the development of a terminal at the bustling port of Colombo in a country thats seen ongoing political controversies related to investments from Chinas Belt and Road initiative. The three countries are …