Belt and Road

Author: Bob Carr, Sydney Between 2012 and 2030, China will add 850 million people to its middle class. This is unprecedented in human history, even exceeding the numbers of the European, North American and Japanese industrial revolutions. It is the biggest r…

Luo Zhaohui is likely to be replaced by Sun Weidong, who has earlier served as the Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Synergising the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with India’s development strategies and reaching “early harvests of boundary talks” are top on th…

Colombo-Sri Lanka on Tuesday signed a deal with India and Japan to develop a deep-sea container terminal in the country that has seen increasing forays by China which has taken a strategic port on a 99-year lease that has worried New Delhi. The three countri…

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…