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Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia

Tag: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Posted inBelt and Road

Belt & Road encircles Latin America and the Caribbean

by Scott Foster January 8, 2022January 13, 2022

My recent pair of articles based on an interview with Professor David Arase of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, published in Asia Times under the title Belt & Road Phase 2 moves beyond infrastructure and ‘Greater Eurasia’: Belt & Road expands in Africa, detailed the evolution of China’s Belt & Road Initiative beyond large infrastructure projects and […]

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‘Greater Eurasia’: Belt & Road expands in Africa

by Scott Foster December 28, 2021January 4, 2022
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China comes to the Covid-19 rescue in Laos

by Bertil Lintner April 10, 2020April 14, 2020
Posted inBeijing, Central Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, South Asia

China splurges for influence in Asia, says study

by Ankur Tanwar December 13, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, China

China’s Belt and Road paves over rules and rights

by Benjamin Zawacki August 28, 2019February 18, 2020
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In Beijing, Assad’s envoy seeks construction cash

by Sami Moubayed June 19, 2019February 18, 2020
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Myanmar and India becoming brothers in arms

by Bertil Lintner June 12, 2019February 18, 2020
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A bridge to China: Kuwait’s Silk City

by Jonathan Gorvett May 13, 2019February 18, 2020
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One country, two sessions, multiple tweaks

by Pepe Escobar March 6, 2019February 18, 2020
Althebeeb Hamad Al Gunibi, 70, head of the fishermen's union on the shore of the Arabian Sea in Duqm, Oman. Photo: Sebastian Castelier
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, China, India, Maldives, Middle East, South Asia, World

Omani fishermen swept up in Belt and Road wave

by Sebastian Castelier and Quentin Muller January 11, 2019February 18, 2020
A Chinese guardian lion in the Forbidden City, Beijing. Intellectual and cultural traditions between the world's two superpowers differ greatly. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Asia, Taiwan, World

All under Heaven, China’s challenge to the Westphalian system

by Pepe Escobar January 10, 2019February 18, 2020
A map shows the route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/ Wanishahrukh
Posted inBeijing, China, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Balochistan shocked over its poor share in CPEC projects

by FM Shakil December 17, 2018February 18, 2020
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on September 28, 2017. Photo: Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev / Kremlin via Reuters
Posted inChina, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

The trials and tribulations of Turkish foreign policy

by Pepe Escobar November 30, 2018February 18, 2020
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 26, 2015. Photo: AFP / Feng Li / Pool
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

It is India vs China amid upheaval in Sri Lankan politics

by Gunjan Singh November 1, 2018
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) accepting the credentials of Wang Qi Jian, the new ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Syria, in Damascus on June 9, 2014. Photo: AFP/HO/SANA
Posted inBeijing, China, Iran, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

China stakes out a role for itself in post-war Syria

by Logan Pauley October 3, 2018February 18, 2020
China's President Xi Jinping, second left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, making bliny [Russian pancakes] as they visit the Far East Street exhibition on the sidelines of the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Sept 11, 2018. Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office handout / Anadolu Agency
Posted inAT Finance, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Shanghai, South Asia, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, World

Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East

by Pepe Escobar September 12, 2018February 18, 2020
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after Erdogan spoke during the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 14, 2017.
Photo: AFP/Mark Schiefelbein
Posted inBeijing, China, European Union, Germany, India, Mexico, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, Turkey, World

Turkey sees long-term partner in China

by Altay Atli August 11, 2018February 18, 2020
Iranians burn an image of US President Donald Trump during an anti-US demonstration outside the former US embassy headquarters in the capital Tehran on May 9, 2018. Photo: AFP/Atta Kenare
Posted inBeijing, China, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Turkey, World

‘Tweet of Mass Destruction’ ratchets up tension on Iran

by Pepe Escobar July 24, 2018February 18, 2020

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