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In speeches and a three-hour meeting at the Belt and Road Forum, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping did not mention the “no limits” partnership they announced just before Russia invaded Ukraine, but they thumbed their noses at the U.S. and showed the world they have each other’s back.
Beijing aspires to a leading position on the high seas. This has made multiple countries uncomfortable, for different reasons.
This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of October 16–22.
The “green silk road” is a sustainability-flavored subtheme to the Belt and Road Initiative, designed to burnish Beijing’s green credentials and advance its claims to global leadership on environmental topics. It is also contributing to a wealth of renewable energy projects in Central Asia.
This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of October 9–15.
Mostly funded by Beijing and built by Chinese engineers, Indonesia's first high-speed railway line opened on October 2. The first passengers were delighted, but there have also been controversies, and the project was completed several years late, and at a cost of $7.2 billion, more than a billion over budget.
The key events this week are the China-Germany Finance Dialogue and the ongoing Asian Games.
Baloch nationalists and the Taliban are among the militants making China’s Belt and Road rocky.
Azerbaijan, located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia, has growing trade and political ties to China but the Transcaucasian nation isn’t going all-in on the Belt and Road.