On China, Can Marcos Succeed Where Duterte Failed?
January 10th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on whether the new Philippine president’s efforts to navigate relations with both the U.S. and China: Yesterday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to China for a three-day state visit aimed at advancing the two nations’ at times troubled bilateral relations. As The Associated Press reported, Marcos flew to Beijing with a […]
Read more »BRI and The Role Of South Caucasus In Chinese/European Connectivity
January 10th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a look at the role of South Caucasus in China’s BRI-led effort to connect China and Europe: China’s Belt and Road Initiative In 2013, China’s president Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st -Century Maritime Silk Road. After two years, an action plan was issued by the National Development […]
Read more »The Demise of China’s Polar Silk Road
January 10th, 2023
Via The Jamestown Foundation, commentary on Finland and the demise of China’s Polar Silk Road: Introduction Only a short time ago, considerable enthusiasm existed in Finland regarding Beijing’s efforts to forge an “Arctic corridor” of railroads and undersea tunnels, satellite ground stations, an airport for scientific expeditions, and massive biorefineries. In this, Finland was not […]
Read more »EU Project to Counter BRI Completed First Year in Disappointment
January 10th, 2023
Via China-US Focus, an article on the West’s efforts to counter China’s BRI: The Geo-Economics Battle The race of geopolitical strategies based on infrastructural development abroad is a part of the new great powers rivalry. The so-called geo-economics contest (Luttwak) is the new global battle, a competition through commerce for getting economic advantages at the […]
Read more »With China’s Help, Nepal Chips Away at Its India-lockedness
January 10th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report that China has begun a feasibility study to build a railway line linking Kathmandu with Kerung in the Tibet Autonomous Region: On December 27, a team of Chinese experts landed in Nepal to conduct the feasibility study of the Kathmandu-Kerung (Geelong) railway. On the same day, China opened the Rasuwagadhi […]
Read more »Somaliland: Has Genel Energy Discovered Oil in Salaxley?
January 10th, 2023
Via Oil News Kenya, an article on Days after a war of words over the legality of Genel’s Energy license to explore in Somaliland one of the seven Federal Member States of Somalia (though largely autonomous with little or no control from Mogadishu) there are mixed messages by the regions Ministry of Energy and Minerals […]
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