Tag: BRI

China, Morocco’s joint BRI implementation plan injects new energy into Global South cooperation framework (Global Times)

At the beginning of January, Morocco signed an accord with China facilitating the joint implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), making it...

Balancing accessibility and quality in Blue Dot Network infrastructure finance (John Taishu Pitt, East Asia Forum)

While the US-led Bretton Woods Institutions have been supporting infrastructure projects since the 1940s, there has been criticism in recent years that the United States has...

Misreading of China’s BRI and aid data by US think tanks is disappointing (Zhang Chuanhong, Global Times)

US research institute AidData recently issued a report claiming in an average year during the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) era, China spent $85...

BRI. The pandemic-induced BRI: Then, now and what next? (Soumya Bhowmick, ORF)

The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly hurting the global economy in a multitude of ways. Not only have the intermittent lockdowns and other restrictions interrupted...

Afghanistan/BRI/China. If the Taliban seek to ‘build Afghanistan,’ the BRI may be key (Global Times)

Wang Cong With the chaotic evacuation of the US and its allies from the Kabul airport still underway and profound political and security uncertainty still...

USA/BRI/China/Cambodia – US cooks up new ‘human rights’ report to vilify BRI project in Cambodia (Global Times)

Song Lin Under the guise of upholding human rights, a US-based institution on Tuesday published a report attempting to vilify the China-proposed Belt and Road...

(China/Pakistan/Afghanistan) Inclination to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship Belt and Road Initiative project into Afghanistan

Global Times writes: As officials from China, Pakistan and Afghanistan revealed an inclination to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship Belt and...

G7/BRI – How should the G-7 respond to China’s BRI? (Howard W. French and David Dollar, Brookings)

When the leaders of G-7 countries met in Carbis Bay last month, they announced a new Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to support...

China – China’s Belt and Road Initiative gets greener (Global Times)

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China's largest bank, has reportedly abandoned a plan to finance a coal fire plant in Zimbabwe due...

(BRI/Uzbekistan) Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia, Part One: Exporting “Safe Cities” to Uzbekistan (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin Following the 2013 announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at a speech given by People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping...

(BRI/Southeast Asia) No more easy money: Will BRI projects in Southeast Asia slow and stall? (Muhammad Saad Siddiqui, Think China)

A new study suggests that official Chinese lending has dropped in recent years. This stems from lessons learnt after a decade of mistakes in...

(China/BRI/Economy) No key project involved in BRI suspended for COVID-19: SASAC (Global Times)

None of the key projects involved in China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been suspended for reasons connected with COVID-19, a Chinese official...