Silk Road

Common transport infrastructure can improve welfare for participating countries, but they are costly undertakings with potentially asymmetric effects on trade and income of individual countries. This column uses new data on Chinas Belt and Road transport proj…

Shanghai-based startup Aiways wants to become the first Chinese automaker to sell electric vehicles in Europe. The company has already unveiled the U5 electric crossover at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year and has now announced the latest project that…

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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia’s new president, a former activist lawyer, used a meeting with China’s top diplomat on Wednesday to criticize Beijing’s human rights record, in a rare departure for an east European politician in a region hungry for Chinese inv…

Friends and family kept saying "have a great holiday" our response was "its looking more like an adventure than a holiday" and so it was. We were becoming comfortable with the typical mid-winter escape for 10 days, which, don't get me wrong, is always wonderf…

The massive infrastructure project, the Meridian highway, has won the support of the Russian government, Vedomosti business daily said, citing government officials. The highway is set to stretch over 2,000km from the Belarus border to the frontier with Kazakh…

The Russian-Pakistani Strategic Partnership (Rusi-Pakistani Yaar Yaar) entered a new phase last week following two significant developments that included their decision to establish a High-Level Inter-Parliamentary Commission and their efforts to expand joint…

Peter Switzer of the Switzer Financial Group says Bitcoin is unnecessary and should be banned. Again With the Pre-Enlightenment FUD Every so often, anti-Bitcoin rhetoric rears its head. Most times, the sentiments expressed appear to be no more educated than…

: After flagging last month the revival of the Bangladesh China India Myanmar- Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) during talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined visiting Prime Minister of Bangladesh …

the oval partnership recently completed the quijang creative cultural center in xian, china. the state of the art multi-functional theater will host a diverse palette of cultural performances, concerts, educational events and exhibitions. it is meant to be th…