China Fast-Tracks Access To Rebellious Xinjiang
October 21st, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on the newly finished Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line completes the circle around the huge Taklamakan Desert on the old Silk Road: Ancient Silk Road travelers cursed China’s largest desert as Takla Makan, an ominous Persian-Turkic expression that translates as “enter and you may never return.” Undeterred by its sandstorms and […]
Read more »Laos – China Railway
October 4th, 2021
Via Asia Times, an article on the China-Laos railway which will open on December 2: Laos will never be the same again on December 2, the day the first high-speed train on the Belt and Road Initiative-built railroad is scheduled to roll into the capital Vientiane arriving from the southern Chinese province of Yunnan. Running […]
Read more »New China-Myanmar Corridor Creating Economic Opportunities
September 16th, 2021
Via China.org, a report on the new China-Myanmar corridor: At the end of August, the first batch of cargo arrived in China’s Sichuan province via the new China-Myanmar corridor. The goods started out in the Port of Singapore from where they were shipped through the Indian Ocean to Yangon, before being transported on to China […]
Read more »Kyrgyzstan & China Increasing their Economic Integration as Part of Belt & Road
September 16th, 2021
Via Belt and Road News, an article on the growing economic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan: Long isolated culturally and linguistically from each other, Kyrgyzstan and China are now increasing their economic integration as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The economic presence of Chinese investors has triggered Sinophobic attitudes among the people of Kyrgyzstan. […]
Read more »Business as Usual: Chinese Investments After the Myanmar Coup
September 10th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an article on Chinese investments in Myanmar which – paradoxically – involves collaboration with the Myanmar military which could mean more instability in the long run: Since the coup in Myanmar on February 1, some foreign investors have pulled out, suspended, or scaled down their businesses in the country. Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), however, […]
Read more »The Belt and Road’s Future In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
August 21st, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look at BRI’s future in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: When the United States and its allies began evacuating from Kabul on August 15, as the Taliban entered the Afghan capital, China decided to keep its embassy open and claimed it was ready for friendly relations with the Taliban. State Councillor and Foreign Minister […]
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