BRI Powers Mali
July 1st, 2022
Via Clingendael – the Netherlands Institute of International Relations – a report on a recently completed BRI project in Africa: The Gouina Hydroelectric Plant in Mali has begun commercial operations, according to China’s state media. The plant is a BRI project, built and largely financed by China. Construction started in 2013 and was delayed several […]
Read more »The Marshall Plan and the Belt and Road Initiative: More Differences Than Similarities
June 26th, 2022
Via The Atlantic Council, a comparative analysis of the Marshall Plan and China’s BRI: China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often directly compared to the United States’ postwar Marshall Plan. The comparison is made due to the BRI’s scale, global infrastructure investment ambitions, and geopolitical and security ramifications. But how accurate is this […]
Read more »How China’s Belt and Road Diplomacy Could End The Ukraine Conflict For Good
June 26th, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, commentary on how Ukraine’s integration into the ambitious rail network linking China with Europe, by providing alternative routes bypassing Russia, would be acceptable to the EU and US: A post-war scenario in Ukraine that favours both Russian and Western interests is key to a sustainable ceasefire. China could be well placed to […]
Read more »Turkey, China See Opportunity In Central Asia After Moscow’s Ukraine Invasion
June 20th, 2022
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on how Turkey and China see opportunity In Central Asia after Moscow’s Ukraine invasion: Since Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian governments have sought to limit their reliance on Russia and grapple with the economic fallout from economic sanctions that the Kremlin’s war has brought to their region. […]
Read more »The Backlash to Belt and Road
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what some term a South Asian battle over Chinese economic power: When Beijing announced its One Belt, One Road initiative five years ago, the global reaction was immediate and pronounced. OBOR, as it became known, was hailed as a transformative effort to deploy China’s economic might in service of […]
Read more »Perking Up: Is Huawei Set To Take On Starbucks In Coffee Push?
June 17th, 2022
Via Week in China, a look at Ren Zhengfei is not a coffee drinker. But that hasn’t stopped the founder of Huawei from becoming a coffee devotee. He’s known to have joked that when he retires, he would like to open a coffee shop. He has also been quoted (repeatedly) pushing the maxim, “A cup […]
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