Belt and Road

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 …

The governments of Japan, India and Sri Lanka have agreed to develop a container terminal at the Port of Colombo, which has attracted major investment from China under its Belt and Road initiative, a Japanese newspaper reported. The three will sign a memoran…

"What's in a name?" Juliet asks in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," implying a name means nothing. But marketing professionals and companies would strongly disagree with Juliet's premise, asserting that brand names and brands certainly have value.  …

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is set to become a crucial leg of the broader Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing's mega-project aiming to enhance "all-around connectivity through infrastructure construction".Pakistan's army plans to deploy an addit…

Almost every day, Liu Szuwei buys two or three coffees, usually Americanos, from his local Luckin Coffee shop in Beijing. He pays about half of what he would pay at Starbucks, and says the service is faster. You can find a Luckin in almost any office buildin…

ZHENGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Dressed in a smart black pantsuit behind the wheel of her pearl-white Audi, Zhao Na has come a long way from her roots in rural Henan province, in central China. The 29-year-old real estate agent cheerfully admits to having shop…