OBOR: Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Global Economic Order
May 13th, 2017
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on China’s One Belt, One Road program: Chinese workers and engineers at a tunnel being created near Vang Vieng, Laos, as part of a $6 billion Chinese rail project that will connect eight Asian countries. Along the jungle-covered mountains of Laos, squads of Chinese engineers are drilling hundreds […]
Read more »Irancell Still Not Ready to Go Public
May 13th, 2017
Via Techrasa, a report on Irancell: According to an order by Iran’s Ministry of ICT in 2006, Irancell had to go public with 21% of its total shares. Yet, years after the first announcement the IPO has not taken place. MTN Irancell is a fast growing Telecommunications Service Company providing 2G-3G-4G-4.5G mobile broadband, WiMAX and TD-LTE […]
Read more »Trade Fairs In Turkmenistan
May 13th, 2017
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at psychology of dictatorships, in this case, Turkmenistan: On May 2, during an international trade fair held in Ashgabat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov stood up and declared that expanding the private sector was a major priority for his government. It’s an understandable aim, given that Turkmenistan’s economy has been badly affected […]
Read more »How Venezuela Ruined Its Oil Industry
May 9th, 2017
Via Forbes, a look at how Venezuela ruined its oil industry: Venezuela is a country in crisis. Protesters that are opposed to the socialist government are being killed, and Venezuelan citizens are starving to death. A humanitarian disaster is unfolding that has been in the making for years. But how can it be that the […]
Read more »Politics Chill Iran’s Attempts To Attract Foreign Capital
May 9th, 2017
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the impact of global politics on Iran’s ability to source international capital: When Iran last year cemented a landmark nuclear agreement with six world powers to remove many of the sanctions against it, Hassan Rouhani, the country’s reformist president, said it would aim to attract at least […]
Read more »The Belt & Road Express: Delays Ahead?
May 6th, 2017
Via The Economist, a look at how China faces resistance to a cherished theme of its foreign policy: ON APRIL 10th a freight train pulled out of Barking station in London carrying Scotch whisky, baby milk and engineering equipment. It arrived in Yiwu in eastern China (see map) nearly three weeks later, completing the second-longest […]
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