The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption. Read More Here
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China’s Path to Power Runs Through the World’s Cities
To push back, the West must invest more in urban life. Read More Here
Setting the table for when Putin meets Xi
Russian leader off to Beijing as junior partner in ‘no limits’ relationship while Xi looks to stabilize relations with US and EU. Read More Here
As Belt and Road Forum Convenes, Time to Rethink Narratives on China’s Economic Coercion
The problem with all this focus on Chinese economic coercion, and the related anxieties about its ability to weaponize trade, is that China hasn’t been particularly good at it. Read More Here
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
Mapping the BRI’s growth over its first 10 years – and its transformation from a Eurasian transit corridor to an initiative with global scope. Read More Here
China Extends A Fast Helping Hand To The Taliban
China has reassured the Taliban that it is ready to begin development activities in Afghanistan via its ambitious multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative (BRI), as the war-torn country drifts toward an economic meltdown. Read More Here
Biden’s Blue Dot Seeks To Derail China’s Belt And Road
Amid an escalating new Cold War, the Biden administration is mobilizing allies and partners to slow China’s technological strides and arrest its rising global influence. In particular, the US has doubled down on reviving the so-called Blue Dot Network, a long-dormant initiative launched by the previous Trump administration to counter Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative […]
Thorny Australia Response To China’s Olive Branch
Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced Canberra was canceling two agreements by Victoria, the country’s second most populous state, to participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. She said they were “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy or –adverse to our foreign relations” but did not elaborate. Read Here | Asia Times
China Slowly Retreating From Pakistan’s Belt And Road
Pakistan’s army is set to take near-total control of the Beijing-financed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a US$60 billion infrastructure building plan replete with railways, roads, ports and special economic zones (SEZs) that is key to China’s global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Read Here | Asia Times
When It Comes To China, Local And National Priorities Don’t Always Align
The security, economic and social rationale of both central and municipal governments are understandable. However, this difference of interests on China between a capital and local governments is a not a new phenomenon and it exists globally. Such a split can also be seen in China itself, where local government priorities may differ from those […]
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