The Challenge with Chinese Investment in Ethiopia’s Industrialization Push
June 13th, 2024
Via Semafor, a report on Chinese investment into Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s state-backed bid to drive industrialization and transform its economy over the last couple of decades has had plenty of support from Chinese investors and operators to create jobs and opportunities for a rapidly growing population. While that support has been welcomed, it’s been rare for […]
Read more »Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Leaves Malaysia With a ‘Ghost’ Island
June 13th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at China’s Forest City project in Johor which remains in limbo as Beijing prepares for key meeting: Tanjung Piai is a cape at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, the southernmost point of Eurasia and a destination for wealthy Chinese “shoppers.” At least it was until the affluent mainlanders all but stopped […]
Read more »‘Made In Ethiopia’: New Documentary About China’s Expansion Into Africa
June 11th, 2024
Ethiopia’s state-backed bid to drive industrialization and transform its economy over the last couple of decades has had plenty of support from Chinese investors and operators to create jobs and opportunities for a rapidly growing population. And, while that support has been welcomed, it’s been rare for policymakers or civil society to take a step […]
Read more »China Springs BRI Surprise On U.S.
June 10th, 2024
Via Indian Punchline, commentary on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project: The report of the death of China’s Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] was an exaggeration, after all. Within days of the US President Joe Biden’s acerbic remark during an interview last week with the Time magazine that the BRI has “become a nuisance graveyard initiative,” a trilateral […]
Read more »Pakistan-China Agree to Upgrade CPEC
June 10th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report that – during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Beijing – Pakistan sought to reassure China of its stability and security concerns. But will it deliver on its promises? During Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent visit to China — his first since his victory in general elections in February — […]
Read more »Georgia’s Anaklia Deep-Water Port Becomes Chinese Geopolitical Project
June 9th, 2024
Via the Jamestown Foundation, a report on Georgia’s Anaklia deep-water port project: Executive Summary: The Georgian Dream government has announced that a Chinese-Singaporean consortium dominated by the Chinese state won the tender for the construction and management of the strategic Anaklia deep-sea port. The port could drastically change the geoeconomic and geopolitical situation in the region, […]
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