https://www.scmp.com/rss/331004/feed Dr Zhang Hongzhou is a research fellow with the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD in public policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His main research interests include regional and global resources conflicts and governance, game theory, discourse analysis, and emerging technologies. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Premier Li Qiang is expected to undertake an official visit to Kyrgyzstan in October. During the trip, he is expected to discuss the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project. After decades of delay and amid concerns the railway might never be built because of conflicting interests, the three governments signed an agreement on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit last September. With significant progress achieved since then, construction of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3232553/rail-link-kyrgyzstan-and-uzbekistan-key-china-raising-central-asia-influence-and-skirting-russia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3232553/rail-link-kyrgyzstan-and-uzbekistan-key-china-raising-central-asia-influence-and-skirting-russia?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:15:32 +0000 Last month, Russia announced it would boost its grain exports to China via the New Land Grain Corridor. Proposed by Beijing in 2012, the corridor aims to develop infrastructure and increase grain production, connecting Russia’s far eastern regions to Inner Mongolia in northern China. In June 2022, Russia’s New Land Grain Corridor Group of Companies and the state-owned China Chengtong International Investment Company signed an agreement to jointly work on the project, with a focus on settling... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3223083/how-china-russia-grain-corridor-can-help-beijing-safeguard-food-security-and-boost-agricultural?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3223083/how-china-russia-grain-corridor-can-help-beijing-safeguard-food-security-and-boost-agricultural?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:30:15 +0000 It is often touted as one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints; an arena in which the world’s most powerful militaries are involved in a tense stand-off that has the potential to escalate in terrifying fashion at the drop of a hat. Yet, if a recent report by the influential American think tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is to be believed, a sizeable and menacing maritime militia fleet has already managed to sail into some of the most hotly contested sites in... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2188193/beijing-has-maritime-militia-south-china-sea-sound-fishy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2188193/beijing-has-maritime-militia-south-china-sea-sound-fishy?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Mar 2019 01:15:39 +0000