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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has signed a whopping 442 billion Pakistani Rupees (PKR) contract with a joint venture of a Chinese state-run firm and a commercial arm of Pakistan’s military for the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam. Chinese state-run firm China Power holds 70% and the Frontier Works Organisation…

A logo is seen on the wheel of a Pirelli tyre displayed for a news conference by ChemChina and Pirelli in BeijingMILAN (Reuters) - Italian tyre-maker Pirelli said it would take its worst hit from the COVID-19 crisis in the current quarter after reporting a 36% drop in first-quarter operating…

Academics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a hawkish Washington, DC, think tank with heavy influence over US foreign policy, have criticized the paucity of the Pentagon’s Arctic policy, where it ostensibly aims to challenge growing Russian and Chinese presence as global warming opens the region’s icy…

Crossroads Asia | Economy | Central Asia TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan’s most active airport. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Gleb OsokinAn offshore company linked to Kazakhstan’s elite sold its shares in Almaty International Airport on May 8 to TAV, a Turkish holding of the ADP Group, for…

The Sakkara solar farm in Saudi Arabia, completed by ACWA Power. Image: ACWA Power. Saudi Arabian developer ACWA Power has set its sights on an accelerated growth trajectory after China’s Silk Road Fund completed the purchase of a minority stake in the firm’s renewables arm. The deal, first announced last…

Trump’s China policy has been Janus: one face for China, the other for the rest of the world. Last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump proclaimed that he and China’s Xi Jinping “love each other.” Also in January, Trump praised China for its “efforts and transparency” on…

China’s reputation over the country’s misgivings surrounding the coronavirus outbreak has taken a major shellacking in US public opinion, which may come with foreign policy implications. Public opinion, ultimately a major driving force behind American policymaking may empower voices in Washington DC that view the warming relationship between China and…

We will get through this crisis. COVID-19 is bad, but it is not the bubonic plague. Alas, more people will die, but we are likely close to the worst of this scourge. The coronavirus pandemic, in addition to inflicting vast human suffering, is also drastically changing the world as we…

World13:37 GMT 06.05.2020(updated 13:38 GMT 06.05.2020) Get short URL'Anti-Chinese' rhetoric would harm ties between the two nations and block international efforts to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a Chinese diplomat said in a speech on Tuesday.British MPs promoting a "Cold-War mindset" risked poisoning Sino-UK relations and risked undermining international solidarity…

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