The Chinese economy, or at least the part of it that depends on rail transport and the export of manufactured goods, appears to be rebounding fast. The China State Railway Group reported record numbers for shipments of goods in July, and also set lofty goals for rail track development in China.
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng Sheridan Prasso reports from Gwadar, Pakistan, for Bloombergย (porous paywall): Plans originally called for a seaport, roads, railways, pipelines...
In a rare instance of public pushback against China by a developing country, Tanzania has rejected and revised five demands from China Merchants Holdings International, Chinaโs largest port operator, to build a $10 billion port and economic zone at Bagamoyo. Meanwhile, the attorney general of Solomon Islands condemned a Chinese deal for exclusive development rights for the entire island of Tulagi, but it is unclear if this will lead to a cancellation of those plans.
China has poured mountains of cash into infrastructure projects abroad, leading smaller countries to worry about exploitation. But while there are real issues with transparency and corruption in Chinese loans, โdebt trapโ is not an accurate characterization.
The Chinese border town of Ruili is home to tens of thousands of Burmese, including a sizable Rohingya population thatโs frustrated by Beijingโs efforts to...
Itโs been over five and a half years since Chinese President Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ first revealed the hugely ambitious idea of a โSilk Road Economic...
Pictured: Two BRI projects in Pakistan represent the contradictory environmental effects of Chinese investment: Left, the Sachal Energy Wind Farm; right, the Thar Engro Coal...
The port of Trieste in Italy, one of four in the countryย that are opening to Chinese investment as a result of the March 23 Memorandum...
The second BARF โ Belt and Road Forum โ begins tomorrow in Beijing, two years after the first such gathering. It seems rather hastily put...