China Looks To Buy Telecoms Assets In The Pacific islands
February 20th, 2021
Via the South China Morning Post, an article on how providing telecommunications services is part of China’s growing interest in developing an economic and strategic presence in the South Pacific: When reports first emerged last year that China Mobile – the country’s largest state-owned telecoms company – was keen to buy Digicel, the biggest mobile carrier in […]
Read more »Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia: Exporting “Safe Cities” to Uzbekistan
February 15th, 2021
Via Jamestown Foundation, a look at one component of the Digital Silk Road: Following the 2013 announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at a speech given by People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping during visit to Kazakhstan, Central Asia has been a key regional priority and an indispensable element for the success […]
Read more »Huawei Digitally Connects Pakistan Beyond India’s Reach
February 15th, 2021
Via Asia Times, a report on how a new Silk Road fiber optic cable project eases Pakistan’s cybersecurity concerns with India but raises new ones with China: China is poised to lay the last stretch of a cross-border fiber optic cable in Pakistan, a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project designed in part to cut […]
Read more »China Building Indonesia Into An EV Powerhouse
February 10th, 2021
Via Asia Times, a report on how China’s investments in Indonesia’s nickel, copper and other ores used in electric vehicles are lifting nation’s industrial prospects: Chief investment minister Luhut Panjaitan has few concerns about China’s iron grip on Indonesia’s nickel industry as other major investors flock to a country with the range of mineral elements needed […]
Read more »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 […]
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