Belt and Road

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) — part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative — was entering its second phase, but there were efforts by some countries to “bypass Pakistan in this process of connectivity”. “ I have no doubt that Pakistan and…

Italy signed up to the BRI under a previous government, becoming the only major Western country to have taken such a step Image Courtesy Reuters Italy made a “improvised and atrocious” decision when it joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) four years ago as it did little to boost…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis travels to the periphery of Roman Catholicism later this summer when he becomes the first pontiff to visit Mongolia, a Central Asian nation squeezed between Russia and China with just 1,500 Catholics. The visit is steeped in geopolitical significance as it will be closely…

China-Africa China-Africa Youth Forum Focuses on Innovation, Entrepreneurship The All-China Youth Federation is set to work with youth organisations in Africa to build China-Africa youth innovation and entrepreneurship projects under the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative of the Chinese government, establish partnership, and give top priority to youth development. Xu Xiao,…

The Belt and Road Initiative "is a hand up to us, not a handout," Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera said in an interview with Xinhua. China's achievement in pursuing high-quality development and economic growth is an example for Africa to learn from and emulate, said Chakwera who paid his first visit…

Originally a Portuguese trading enclave surrounded by Dutch Indonesia, it’s amazing Timor-Leste is a nation at all. It rapidly declared its independence in 1975 after Portugal withdrew, and then survived Indonesia rapidly invading and occupying it for the next 24 years, using torture, massacre, and starvation to keep people in…

China provided less infrastructure investment in 2020 and 2021 amid the pandemic and as many projects, like those in its Belt and Road Initiative, did not deliver While China has out-signed traditional donors in terms of investment value, partners like the US, Europe, Japan typically do better with actual delivery…

Updated May 28, 2023 at 9:55 PM Published May 28, 2023 at 4:47 PM MILAN - Good relations with China are possible even without being part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in an interview published on Sunday, as her government weighs…

He also called upon the group to “continue to crack down hard” on the “three evils” — terrorism, extremism, and separatism — and to continue to support a stable Afghanistan. He specifically named the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which Beijing has long labeled a threat to China for stoking…

Published: 3:01pm, 27 Apr, 2023 Updated: 3:01pm, 27 Apr, 2023 Read More