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The digital power of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is slowly unfolding and shaping into a whole new area of opportunity. When the BRI took global centre stage in 2013, most conversations revolved around traditional infrastructure: building roads, railways, …
Read More »China’s Belt and Road investment map
The fifth anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was recently marked in Beijing. This 900 billion U.S. dollar transcontinental development project was launched in the autumn of 2013 when president Xi Jinping proposed the building of the Silk Road Economic …
Read More »Recalibrating CPEC: can the Govt pull its act together?
While the government has protected CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) funding in its mini-budget, it has, however, indicated that it will re-evaluate projects to arrive at a win-win situation for both Pakistan and China, without undermining the strategic importance of Belt & Road …
Read More »Global and local perspective about the CPEC
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being deemed in some quarters as economic as well as political dominance of China. The prevailing perspective in some countries in particular is about the growing influence of China specifically in Poland, Laos, Kazakhstan, Sri …
Read More »The New Silk Road: 8 steps to ensuring China’s $900 billion project is a success
What is the New Silk Road? The Silk Road was the name given in 1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen to the ancient network of trade routes linking China to central and western Asia, India and the Mediterranean …
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