New Silk Road In Action At China-Kazakh Border
December 7th, 2019
Via The Asia Times, an article on the Silk Road in action at the Chinese-Kazakh border: We are cruising on a pristine, 380 km-long four-lane superhighway from Almaty to Khorgos – finished in 2016 for $1.25 billion, 85% of the cost covered by a World Bank loan. And then, suddenly, riding parallel to us, there’s […]
Read more »China Builds In Myanmar’s Conflict Areas
November 26th, 2019
Via China Dialogue, a report on China’s new infrastructure corridor through Myanmar which crosses war-torn regions, risking further conflict and environmental degradation: A year ago, Myanmar and China signed an agreement to establish the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), as part of China’s Belt and Road global infrastructure initiative. Today, that corridor is mired in conflict between […]
Read more »China: Doubling Down On The Digital Silk Road
November 21st, 2019
Via Reconnecting Asia, an article on China’s efforts to build the digital Silk Road: Summary: While the core focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is on traditional infrastructure deployments, it is evident that the Digital Silk Road is a key part of the overall BRI strategy, and China will leverage technology to increase […]
Read more »Non-Stop From Baku To Europe – A New Silk Road Corridor Emerges
November 21st, 2019
Via Forbes, a look at the middle corridor of the New Silk Road: Just ten years ago, a non-stop freight train from fringes of Asia into the core of Europe may have sounded like an odd twist of historical fiction or even a really dumb idea, but in today’s context – where a new “Silk […]
Read more »New Silk Road Money Is Paving The Old Silk Road
November 10th, 2019
Via The Asia Times, an article on the hurricane of yuan blowing through Central Asia, funding everything from high-rise hotels to thousands of kilometers of highways: There never used to be much to do in Khorgos, a remote and dusty outpost on the China-Kazakh border. As recently as 2011, it was a settlement of a mere […]
Read more »Africa’s Experience With Chinese Investors Has Some Parallels With Central Asia
November 4th, 2019
Via Eurasia.net, an article on China’s investment activities in Central Asia: Poorly governed, resource-rich countries with exploding populations that are hungry for investment: Africa and Central Asia have much in common. Both are also aggressively courted by Chinese investors, these days under the catch-all Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI. Africa got a head start, […]
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