China’s Georgian Gamble
March 18th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy Research Institute, a report on Georgia’s pivot towards China: As Georgia pivots away from the West and slides into dictatorship, China emerges as its key strategic partner. While Washington and Brussels struggle to find transatlantic unity and craft a unified approach to Russia and Ukraine, Beijing methodically expands its clout in the […]
Read more »Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
March 13th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Georgia’s government sparked an uproar by announcing that a port project on the Black Sea will be awarded to a company from China after canceling a contract with a consortium that included Western firms: For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet […]
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, […]
Read more »Chinese-Led Consortium To Build Massive Port Project On Georgia’s Black Sea Coast
June 2nd, 2024
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on a Chinese-led consortium’s plans to build a massive port on Georgia Black Sea coast: Georgia has announced that a Chinese consortium submitted the sole bid to build a sprawling deep-sea port in Anaklia, ending a multiyear political saga over the megaproject that puts Tbilisi’s growing ties with Beijing in […]
Read more »Georgia’s Tacit Pivot to China
May 23rd, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at China’s emergence as the Georgian government’s prudent alternative to Russia and the West as it deals with civil upheaval over the alleged pro-Russian “foreign agents” bill: China’s strategic influence in Georgia slips under the radar as the country is caught in a tug-of-war between Russia and the West over […]
Read more »Putin’s Silk Road Around Sanctions
March 1st, 2024
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on Russia’s growing transshipment of Western goods viacountries like Armenia, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? For about 1,500 years, high-value goods were moved from China (and perhaps other parts of Asia) to Europe and the Middle East via the Silk Road. The precise route varied over time, but it always ran through and involved […]
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