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Topic: Belt and Road Initiative
Full Truck Alliance raises $1.7bn as Uber meets Silk Road
Full Truck Alliance, the Chinese ground transport ‘Uber-for-trucks’ online platform, announced earlier today that it has…
Pandemic and environmentalists put pressure on New Silk Road
Governments want China to restructure, delay repayments or forgive tens of billions of dollars of loans…
Maersk halves train times from China to Europe via Turkey
The journey time for the movement of goods between China and Europe was effectively slashed in…
Healthcare diplomacy helps consolidate China’s soft power
The COVID-19 pandemic has given President Xi Jinping’s administration the opportunity to use healthcare diplomacy add…
Huwaei wins Russian 5G contract as Trump pushes Xi and Putin into each others’ arms
Huawei is to build Russia’s first 5G wireless network after it struck a deal with MTS…
Liu steps out of Davos shadows to fuel speculation about Chinese succession
Speculation that the Harvard – educated economist Liu He is being groomed as successor to Chinese…
Sri Lanka leases Hambantota port to Chinese to cover loans – from China
Sri Lanka has formally handed over its loss-making southern port of Hambantota to China on a…
Trebles all round! Cameron cashes in on Brexit through Belt & Road fund role
Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron has taken on a new role leading a government-backed investment…
Chabahar set to take on Gwadar in fight for traffic on South Asian sea route
The prospect of a new strategic sea route connecting Iran, India and Afghanistan came one step…
Milan takes fast train to China
Milan became the latest European city to join up to China’s Belt and Road initiative last…
Russia and Kazakhstan agree route for high-speed EurAsia Land Bridge
Plans for a 300km per hour high-speed EurAsia Land Bridge rail link running from China to…
BTK rail line opens intermodal Silk Road route through Turkey
BTK: A train pulling thirty 20-foot containers of wheat has arrived in the Turkish city of Mersin…
Fruit and veg rots on Kyrgyz-Kazakh border as EEU threatens to unravel
Hundreds of tons of vegetables and fruit that have been piling up at customs posts on…
Khalifa joins Maritime Silk Road as concerns grow over Beijing’s influence
The UAE’s Khalifa Port is set to become the latest link in China’s 21st Century Maritime…
Belt and Road gets own shipping index
After a two-year trial the Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) yesterday officially launched a series of indices…
Jiangxi freight service strengthens Tashkent’s links with New Silk Road
Another piece in the New Silk Road jigsaw puzzle slotted into place last Friday when a…
Payday nears for Kabul with work on Afghan leg of TAPI due to start in 2018
The prospect of Afghanistan earning a very welcome $500m a year in transit fees from the…
China draws Tehran into New Silk Road
New Silk Road: The China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) has been given the…
Nazarbayev and Xi “open new page” in relations with $8bn investment package
The Kazakh and Chinese Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev and Xi Jinping yesterday gave their blessing to representatives…
Saudi-led rift with Qatar casts shadow over China’s Silk Road ambitions
This week’s decision by a number of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia to cut all…
China looks to Saudi Arabia to protect Maritime Silk Road route
This March, the Saudi Monarch King Salman embarked on a six-week tour of Asia, the highlight of…
US revives Silk Road projects in bid to counter China’s ‘soft power’ ambitions
New Silk Road: The Trump administration this week announced it was reviving two major infrastructure projects…
US giants hitch a ride on New Silk Road
New Silk Road: Although US President Donald Trump declined to join other world leaders including Russia’s…