CPEC: Pakistan’s Expensive Gamble
January 17th, 2017
Courtesy of The Gulf News, commentary on how some senior economists in Pakistan are now increasingly voicing their concern over the terms ?of financing from China for CPEC initiatives: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) launched formally during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Islamabad in 2015 symbolises the enduring China-Pakistan friendship. The implementation of the […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Promoting Connectivity, Development Along Ancient Route
January 2nd, 2017
Via China Daily, an overview of China’s One Belt and Road plan: More than three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Looking back at 2016, the Belt and Road Initiative has gained fruitful early achievements, promoting connectivity and opening up possibilities […]
Read more »Inside China’s Global Spending Spree: OBOR
December 18th, 2016
Courtesy of Fortune Magazine, a detailed look at China’s One Belt One Road spending plans: “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $3 trillion infrastructure building campaign, could be a windfall for some Western companies and investors. The high-rise coastal city of Dubai plays host to all kinds of luxury oddities: indoor ski slopes, gold-bar vending machines, […]
Read more »The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
December 9th, 2016
Via The News in Pakistan, commentary on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is not an ordinary run-of-the-mill project; it involves massive economic activity. Its impact is already being felt in Pakistan, albeit not in the way it was expected. Though the Afghan corridor, which can link the CPEC, remains unavailable due […]
Read more »China About to Start $35 Billion of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
November 25th, 2016
Via Bloomberg, a report on China’s plans to start its investment in Pakistan as part of its Silk Road initiative: More than three quarters of $46 billion of planned Chinese-led investment in Pakistan will be implemented by next year as part of the world’s second-largest economy’s flagship Silk Road plan. “Out of this $46 billion, […]
Read more »Russia Lacks Infrastructure to Take Part in China’s Silk Road
November 25th, 2016
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s infrastructure limitations to participate in China’s Silk Road project and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Afghanistan’s efforts to create the Lazurian corridor,” a new railroad and canal transit network “connecting Central and South Asia with the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean basins: Moscow has complained about and done […]
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