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 […]
Read more »China Consolidates Its Commercial Foothold in Djibouti
January 30th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a report on how China’s presence in Africa’s smallest country is far more extensive than just a military base: Djibouti, located at the far end of the Horn of Africa, is the country with the smallest acreage on the African continent. But its proximity to the Middle East, its location on the energy […]
Read more »BRI: What’s Holding Up The Trains From Pakistan To Turkey Via Iran?
January 27th, 2021
Via the South China Morning Post, commentary on how – while Iran Pakistan, and Turkey have announced that the rail project will be revived this year – it must still overcome infrastructural hurdles before it can kick-start important rail routes under China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Recently, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan announced they would revive […]
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