New Silk Road: Japan To Counteract China In Kazakhstan With New Asia-Europe Rail Deall
August 31st, 2017
Via Forbes, a report on a new Japanese investment to counter China’s BRI initiative: Japan continues standing in the ring with China, exchanging blow for blow as the Asian rivals both compete and cooperate with each other in the creation of the trans-Eurasian mega-project that has been dubbed the New Silk Road. Just months after the announcement of a deal that would […]
Read more »Pakistan’s $100B Deal With China
August 26th, 2017
Via Devex, a detailed look at China’s investment and aid to Pakistan: Early last year, the Pakistani government sent USAID officials in Islamabad a mystifying letter via snail mail: please stop doing feasibility studies for Diamer Basha Dam. Pakistan had been lobbying the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Asian Development Bank since 2010 to complete the dam. A USAID assessment […]
Read more »Dueling Ports Underline China-India BRI Rivalry
August 16th, 2017
Via Asia Times, an article on how New Delhi’s fast track development of Iran’s Chabahar port is viewed as a security threat in Pakistan and open challenge to Beijing’s BRI designs: India’s eagerness to develop Iran’s southern Chabahar port project has irked certain military circles in Pakistan which view the facility as a potential security threat […]
Read more »The Real Thrust Of The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
August 16th, 2017
Via The Straits Times, a look at the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: There is no doubt that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with a total outlay in excess of US$62 billion (S$84.5 billion), is a key pillar of China’s One Belt, One Road (Obor) programme. Coverage of the CPEC, however, has focused on only a sliver […]
Read more »Nurly Zhol: Kazakhstan’s Own Belt & Road Initiative Takes Hold
August 13th, 2017
Via Frontera News, a look at Kazakhstan’s own Belt & Road initiative, called Nurly Zhol: Kazakhstan has paid lip service to becoming a clean energy, technology, and innovation hub in Central Asia (AAXJ) (VPL) for many years. Increasingly, the aim is taking hold. The economy has already received $1 billion in loans from the EBRD (European Bank […]
Read more »China’s Maritime Silk Road
August 9th, 2017
Via Forbes, an interesting look at China deal to take over a key Abu Dhabi port: The next stop on China’s “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” has been chosen: Abu Dhabi. At the end of last month, China’s Jiangsu province signed a $300 million deal with the UAE’s Abu Dhabi Ports to develop a manufacturing operation in the […]
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