Chinese Plans To Build A $39B Port In Papua New Guinea
February 7th, 2021
Via The Sunday Times, a report on a Chinese plan to build a new port city in Papua New Guinea: A Chinese plan to build a city with a large port on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) impoverished south coast, less than 50 miles from Australian territory, has raised alarm in Canberra. Security agencies are fearful […]
Read more »CPEC: A Gateway To Central Asia
February 7th, 2021
Via The Frontier Post, some commentary on CPEC: CPEC is Asian giant and landmark in Sino-Pak evergreen ties. It is regional integration chipping Pak-China with the rest of the regional states. CPEC is an open hub for all regional stakeholders among which Central Asia is of great vitality in regard to geopolitical, socio-economic and geostrategic […]
Read more »Five Significant MENA Belt And Road Projects
February 3rd, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a look at some significant MENA-based BRI projects: The MENA region – the Middle-East and North Africa – has also been targeted as part of Beijing’s Belt & Road Initiative, with greater interconnectivity and supply chains to much needed oil and gas reserves being put in place. The MENA region has vast […]
Read more »China’s Pakistan Investments A Double-Edged Sword
February 2nd, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on how Chinese investment is unmistakably transforming Pakistan but local resistance is rising to all the asset buying and building: Chinese companies are taking over major businesses in Pakistan’s export-led manufacturing sector, the profit-making heart of the nation’s $276 billion economy. As rising Chinese investment promises to boost Pakistan’s […]
Read more »Papua New Guinea and China’s Debt Squeeze
February 2nd, 2021
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on how PNG’s telecom industry is a showcase example of how debt to China weighs down governments and constrains choices: The discussion of China, debt, and infrastructure, is beset by stereotypes. On the one hand, China would prefer to be seen as a development partner. According to this view, it’s a trusted, […]
Read more »China Builds Digital Silk Road in Pakistan to Africa and Europe
February 1st, 2021
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how China is helping Pakistan untangle its growing number of communications lines, connecting Xinjiang and Africa with a fiber optic submarine cable: China is set to lay the final stretch of a cross-border fiber optic cable in Pakistan that will create the Digital Silk Road, serving the geostrategic interests of […]
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