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The initiative spearheaded by the Chinese government and endorsed by President Xi Jinping in late 2013 aims to improve trade and economic integration across Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Following decades of the ‘Angola model’ – oil-backed loans to access Chinese funding for infrastructure – Beijing vows to help modernise Angola.
Technology transfers have always been officially part of China’s belt and road plan, but analysts say those types of exchanges are being increasingly prioritised as Beijing bids to boost ties.
Beijing is a reliable friend and sincere partner for countries in Africa, Xi Jinping tells visiting Angolan President Joao Lourenco.
A water desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates highlights China’s ongoing move towards the Middle East amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.
Readers discuss the valuable role Hong Kong’s shipping industry can play, and a recent fatal road accident.
IMF report says that between 2015 and 2021, the total number of Chinese workers in African countries fell by 64 per cent.
Start-ups and investors say attending Leap tech conference is about building relationships for a market seen as ‘like China in the late 90s’.
Amid strain over Ukraine war, China-US tension and trade rows, analyst says a potential Europe trip by Xi may help two sides reduce ‘misperceptions’.
Balkan nation, a close ally of Beijing in recent years, is the first confirmed stop on the Chinese president’s first post-pandemic trip to Europe.
Beijing will be the backdrop this year for gatherings of Latin American and African leaders, part of a long-standing relationship with developing countries.
Private sector crucial to helping Washington advance policy goals in Global South as alternative to ‘never-ending foreign assistance dependence’.
High-risk, high-cost mega-infrastructure projects like those backed by Belt and Road Initiative decline in popularity, with developments now seen in sectors with faster returns and fewer operating costs.
The timing of the trips has remained consistent but their purpose has shifted since Qian Qichen started the convention in 1991.
Wang Xiaohong, China’s public security minister, and Viktor Orban underline stability as the basis for economic relations.
Head of global trade scheme’s Hong Kong wing says city to concentrate efforts on countries in the two regions to ensure intermediate results.
Several analysts say Prabowo is unlikely to do anything to upend the economic cooperation that outgoing president Joko Widodo has established with China over the years.
Race for minerals vital for renewable energy drives rise in Chinese investments and construction deals in Africa.
But a change in banks funding the project points to China’s wish to commercialise its overseas lending, experts say.
Influential author Parag Khanna says the Belt and Road Initiative is exactly the blueprint needed in this age of uncertainty and instability.
Following efforts to build infrastructure in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia that ended in disappointment, China’s fortunes seem to have changed thanks to popular – and expensive – clean energy projects.
The Tazara rail line connecting Zambian copper belt with port of Dar es Salaam will be updated through public-private partnership and compete with US- and EU-backed link between resource-rich areas and Angola’s Atlantic coast.
Green Finance and Development Centre at Fudan University identifies a ‘clear need’ for renewable energy investment to stoke growth and support a ‘green transition’ in China.
Wu Sike, special envoy for the Middle East from 2009-14, says China can bank on ‘long-standing friendly’ ties to provide strategic support in the region.