Gwadar vs. Chabahar: Competing Ports in Iran and Pakistan Fuel Ambition and Mistrust
June 12th, 2019
Courtesy of STATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Gwadar and Chabahar: China’s expansion across South Asia and the Indian Ocean under its Belt and Road Initiative will drive India’s own regional outreach, heightening the importance of New Delhi’s infrastructure projects such as the Chabahar port in Iran. However, the threat of U.S. sanctions and […]
Read more »Beijing’s Growing Interest In The Middle East and North Africa
May 17th, 2019
Via Foreign Policy, three very interesting graphical analyses of Beijing’s growing interest in the Middle East and North Africa: Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded the latest high-level Belt and Road gathering of world leaders in Beijing last month, China’s signature project has seemingly entered a new phase: worldwide acceptance of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) […]
Read more »China’s Belt & Road: Cinching Tight Around India?
April 25th, 2019
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), detailed commentary on China’s BRI impact on India: Highlights China will continue to expand its Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia because the peripheral nations of the subcontinent feel a need to counterbalance India’s influence as they seek funding for development. India’s opposition to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will […]
Read more »China: Digging Deep in Landlocked Laos
April 25th, 2019
Via The Diplomat, a look at China’s growing strategic presence in Laos: Laos, a country of 6.8 million people roughly the size of China’s southern autonomous region of Guangxi, is often overlooked in China’s outreach to Southeast Asia. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the upgrading of Chinese-Lao relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative […]
Read more »China’s Plan For Railway To Uzbekistan Is Transforming Central Asian Geopolitics
April 11th, 2019
Via The Times of Central Asia, an interesting look at the impact that China’s planned railway to Uzbekistan is having upon Central Asia: China is competing with Russia for greater influence on Central Asia countries, using infrastructure and transport investment and projects to achieve that goal. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by […]
Read more »Chinese Investment in Africa: Beyond Belt and Road
March 27th, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how – beyond the Belt and Road infrastructure projects – thousands of entrepreneurs from China are also setting up on the continent: Wilson Wu has big plans for the free trade zone he manages in Igbesa, a scruffy town in Ogun State, some 60km from the frenzy […]
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