Belt and Road

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…

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Says scheme will benefit both nations China's ambassador to Thailand Han Zhiqiang on Monday gives his keynote address at a forum titled 'Contemporary China with the World: An exchange of a new generation between Thailand and China' at Chandrakasem Rajabhat University. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) Chinese ambassador Han Zhiqiang on Monday expressed…

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Lawyer Harry Roque speaks at the ‘Belt & Road Initiative Forum’ last Friday at the Ocean Park Marriot Hotel. STAR / File HONG KONG – With only two of 75 China-sponsored projects completed since 2016, lawyer Harry Roque said geopolitical challenges in the South China Sea and the Strait of…

China ramping up bailout loans to 'Belt and Road' countries: report by AFP Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2023 China has handed out $240 billion worth of bailout loans to 22 developing countries at risk of default over the past two decades, with the trend accelerating in recent years,…

Big infrastructure projects have been the hallmark of China’s Belt and Road Initiative over the past decade, but analysts say ‘small but beautiful’ projects will dominate in the years ahead...Read More