China Announces Major Steps To Support High-Quality BRI Cooperation
October 21st, 2023
Via Global Times, a report on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced eight major steps China will take to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. First, China will build a multidimensional Belt and Road connectivity network, Xi said in a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for […]
Read more »China National Chem to Build Angola’s $6 Billion Lobito Refinery
October 19th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report that China National Chemical Engineering will build Angola’s $6 Billion Lobito refinery: Angola will sign a contract with China National Chemical Engineering Co. on Friday to build the long-delayed $6 billion plant in Lobito. “The processing capacities of the Lobito refinery remain at 200,000 barrels per day and the estimated cost of the […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Taliban’s Economic Dreams
October 18th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how the specter of insecurity in Afghanistan has been replaced by a lack of governance and widespread incompetence. Investors from China or any other country can be expected to be deeply wary; On October 17 and 18, leaders, delegations and representatives from more than 130 countries gathered in Beijing for […]
Read more »China Invested $1 Trillion to Gain Global Influence. Can That Go On?
October 17th, 2023
Courtesy of New York Times, a look at China’s BRI: China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, founded the Belt and Road Initiative a decade ago to use the country’s economic might to enlarge its geopolitical heft and counter the influence of the United States and other industrialized democracies. China has since disbursed close to $1 trillion […]
Read more »China’s Inner Mongolia: Energy and Minerals + Russian and Mongolia Links
October 17th, 2023
Via the South China Morning Post, an article on China’s efforts to highlight Inner Mongolia: State Council’s first provincial-level high-quality development plan for the Inner Mongolia autonomous region focuses on ecology, energy, strategic minerals and border security Plan focuses on building the region, which shares its border with Russia and Mongolia, into an important shield […]
Read more »China Got a Big Contract. Nepal Got Debt and a Pricey Airport.
October 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on Nepal’s new airport at Pokhara, which insiders suggest revals the pitfalls of China’s infrastructure-at-any-cost model: On a sweltering June morning, the new international terminal at the airport in Pokhara, Nepal’s second-biggest city, roared to life with the arrival of a Sichuan Airlines flight from China. A […]
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