The Rise and Fall of America’s New Silk Road Strategy
May 15th, 2017
Courtesy of The EconoMonitor, interesting commentary on the United States’ New Silk Road strategy: Introduction On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago, Eurasian strategists were bullish […]
Read more »China Paves Way for a New Silk Road
May 15th, 2017
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at China’s One Belt, One Road initiative: The Silk Road has become the stuff of legend. For centuries, the web of trade routes, which expanded to traverse Central Asia and the Mediterranean Sea, connected China to the European Continent, facilitating commerce and cultural exchange. But beyond the […]
Read more »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 […]
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