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
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Saudi Arabia’s empire of sand
As war breaks out, MBS is racing to build his dreams. 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
Can Xi And Modi Resolve The Sino-Indian Border Dispute?
The LAC buffer zones have created space between Chinese and Indian troops. However, their rapid border infrastructure projects are raising the risk of future conflict. Read More Here
From California Capitalism To Bidenomics
The Biden administration’s ambitious spending and investment programs are precisely what the US economy needs to thrive in the twenty-first century. Best of all, the economic strategy now being pursued at the national level has already proven highly successful in the country’s wealthiest, most dynamic state. Read Here | Project Syndicate
Chinese Contractors Win Majority Of Mega Projects In Africa
Chinese companies first went to Africa in 1979 in search of profits and are now the dominant force. Look at the most interesting architecture in the skyline of Dar es Salaam and you’re probably looking at a building designed by a Chinese architect and built by a Chinese firm, academic says. Read Here | South […]
China Offers Vaccines, Projects In Bid To Shore Up Ties With Central Asian Neighbours
Beijing pledges more regional cooperation on Covid-19 shots and Chinese-funded infrastructure during multilateral talks in Xian amid concerns come from Russia and the five Central Asian countries themselves about China’s expanding footprint. Read Here | South China Morning Post
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
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Debt-Trap Or Game Changer?
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, has been the focus of heated debate among observers of Asia — and, in particular, South Asia — since its announcement in 2013. Proponents of the project in China and Pakistan describe CPEC as a “gamechanger” that will uplift Pakistan and adjacent areas of China and perhaps even reshape […]
China’s Infrastructure-Heavy Model For African Growth Is Failing
The strategy of “infrastructure-led growth” (growth, not economic and social development) seems to be showing its limits in Africa, where China has largely been instrumental in promoting it. This strategy is based on the Keynesian multiplier theory whereby any increase in aggregate demand would result in a more than proportional increase in GDP. Read Here […]
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