Has China’s Promise To Develop Venezuela’s Mines Gone Unfulfilled?
September 11th, 2021
Via Belt and Road News, an article on China’s promise to develop Venezuela’s mines: At the turn of the century, China and Venezuela signed several agreements worth millions of dollars for the development of the Venezuelan mining sector, which both countries promoted as an alternative to Caracas’ over-reliance on oil. Expectations were high. Yet years later, […]
Read more »China’s Gas Shortage Boosts Central Asia’s Role
September 11th, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, an article on how Central Asia producers may help solve China’s gas shortage: China’s growing demand for natural gas has been driving closer engagement with Turkmenistan, renewing questions about Russia’s role in Central Asia, once regarded as Moscow’s backyard. Soaring gas prices appear to be the main motivator behind China’s agreement to […]
Read more »Business as Usual: Chinese Investments After the Myanmar Coup
September 10th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an article on Chinese investments in Myanmar which – paradoxically – involves collaboration with the Myanmar military which could mean more instability in the long run: Since the coup in Myanmar on February 1, some foreign investors have pulled out, suspended, or scaled down their businesses in the country. Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), however, […]
Read more »The Belt and Road’s Future In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
August 21st, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look at BRI’s future in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: When the United States and its allies began evacuating from Kabul on August 15, as the Taliban entered the Afghan capital, China decided to keep its embassy open and claimed it was ready for friendly relations with the Taliban. State Councillor and Foreign Minister […]
Read more »The Afghanistan-China Belt & Road Initiative
August 18th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a look at potential BRI routes exist along the Wakhan Corridor and via Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, but it is Pakistani access to Kabul that looks the better option – as long as the Taliban can provide stability, develop Afghan society, and refrain from regional aggression International media has focused on Afghanistan these past […]
Read more »Iran’s Chabahar Port And Bangladesh’s West Asian Reconnection Opportunity
August 15th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on the potential for Chabahar to scale Bangladesh’s west Asian reconnections: For decades now India has made requests to Pakistan concerning the provision of overland transit facilities to markets in Iran and beyond, in return for the millions of dollars Islamabad would earn in transit fees. Pakistan has never agreed. […]
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