Belt and Road

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

February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 The 2023 Belt and Road Media Community Summit Forum is held in Beijing, on February 14, 2023. /CMG The 2023 Belt and Road Media Community Summit Forum hosted by the China Media Group (CMG) was held in Beijing on Tuesday. With the theme of “Joining…

China has been growing its activities and influence using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project in India’s extended neighbourhood with the sole purpose of reducing New Delhi’s influence in the Indian Ocean Region, papers presented at key security meet in the national capital argued. Apart from BRI, China has…

By Ryan Dube and Gabriele Steinhauser | Photographs by Isadora Romero for The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2023 9:45 am ET SAN LUIS, Ecuador—Built near a spewing volcano, it was the biggest infrastructure project ever in this country, a concrete colossus bankrolled by Chinese cash and so important to…

Jihadists such as Isis-K are taking rhetorical aim at China’s expanding economic footprint, rather than its treatment of Uygurs Following the US pull-out from Afghanistan, the Taliban regime’s silence on Uygurs and ties with China have left a vacuum for Isis-K to fill Published: 3:30am, 16 Dec, 2022 Updated: 3:30am,…

A senior mainland official said on Saturday that Hong Kong plays an irreplaceable role in the country's Belt and Road Initiative. Wang Linggui, a deputy director at Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, made the comment in a recorded speech at a legal forum on Belt and Road and…

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Russia’s war in Ukraine is weighing on Eurasian transport logistics. The China Railway Express, a key part of China’s Belt and Road initiative, is seeing rail traffic plummet. China is scrambling for alternatives in order to ramp up exports. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine has severely…

Billionaire Gautam Adani said China will feel increasingly isolated as rising nationalism, shifts in supply chains and technology curbs threaten the world’s second-biggest economy. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has run into resistance in many countries, challenging Beijing’s global ambitions, the world’s third-richest man told the Forbes Global CEO Conference…