How will COVID-19 impact China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, Chinaโs Belt and Road Initiative is facing its single greatest challenge since Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ launched the Belt and Road...
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Belt and Road blues in Pakistan, Chinaโs โall-weather friendโ
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...
UCLA’s Alex Wang on where China leads and lags in climate change
In this episode, part of Sinica’s California series, Kaiser chats with Alex Wang, a professor of law at UCLA and an expert on China’s environmental...
Tanzania says no to China. Solomon Islands says maybe.
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.
The โdebt-trap diplomacyโ debate: Are Chinaโs loans predatory?
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.
On the border of China and Myanmar, commerce and consternation
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...
Belt and Road interview: Scholar Dragan Pavliฤeviฤ on BRI and Chinaโs foreign policy
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...
Op-ed: How to make Chinaโs Belt and Road green
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...
Brouhaha over Italy-China BRI deal may be overrated
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...