Afghanistan Hopes To Join CPEC
September 5th, 2022
Via Ariana News, a report that Afghanistan hopes to join the CPEC: Afghan Minister of Commerce and Industry has said that Afghanistan should be included in the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project. “In talks we had with China, it was mentioned that we should partner with China in the Belt and Road Initiative and […]
Read more »China’s “Sinostan” Ambitions
September 5th, 2022
Via Diplomatic Courier, a review of a book that explores how China found itself with a remarkably expansive, though unintended, empire in Central Asia: Over the course of the summer, China found itself headed for a foreign debt crisis. Many of its loans, made under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—Beijing’s globe-spanning infrastructure and influence […]
Read more »Oman Offer To Build Gwadar Railway Conjures Pakistan Port’s Past
September 4th, 2022
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on an Omani offer to build Gwadar’s railway which conjures up memories of Pakistan port’s past: A company from Oman is looking to invest in a train line that would link the Pakistani port town of Gwadar — envisioned as a key stop on China’s Belt and Road infrastructure network […]
Read more »The Rise (and Fall?) of the Polar Silk Road
September 2nd, 2022
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the sizeable gap between China’s ambitions for the PSR and its actual capabilities and accomplishments in the Arctic – and the gap has widened since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: This month, the Biden administration announced it would soon name an ambassador-at-large to cover the Arctic, as part of the […]
Read more »The China-Vietnam-U.S. “Triangle”: A Model For Globalization’s Future?
September 2nd, 2022
Via WorldCrunch, commentary on how – following the escalation of the Chinese-U.S. trade war in 2018 – the “Made in China” label is not as ubiquitous as it once was and, while Southeast Asian economies are on the rise, their growth doesn’t necessarily threaten Chinese dominance: There have been a flurry of reports recently in […]
Read more »China Slowly Undercutting US influence in Latin America With 5 ‘New Factor’ Trade Deals
September 1st, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s efforts to slowly undercut US influence in Latin America with 5 ‘new factor’ trade deals with Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, Colombia and Nicaragua, having already penned agreements with Chile, Costa Rica and Peru: China stands to secure prized natural resources while vying with the United States for allies […]
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