As the growth in China slows to a two-decade low, infrastructure development providers like cement and steel companies find the need to look beyond the borders of the country to Central Asi...
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China’s most prolific research areas are engineering followed by materials science and medicine. With a multi-discipline approach that includes engineering, design, and applied sciences, hi...
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Another important motivation behind the Belt and Road Initiative is to encourage economic development in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region, thus tackling the major problems of its Western ...
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But President Xi’s vision isn't only about putting a physical infrastructure in place. Beneath the blueprint to create a contiguous land and maritime zone is China’s response to the more ex...
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It will be an economic game-changer for Bangladesh when completed. China Railway Construction Corporation is building a 215 km Padma rail link project from Dhaka to Jessore, including the 6...
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For many Kenyans seen at this newly-constructed Nairobi terminal, it is a historic moment. The just-inaugurated Standard Gauge Railway from the port city of Mombasa to capital Nairobi is it...
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China is calling its military base in Djibouti an overseas logistics base. The location is a very strategic one: Djibouti, on the coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Red Sea, looking acros...
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Hambantota Port: The latest news is that Sri Lanka wants to reduce China’s stake in the Hambantota port deal. The debt-laden but strategically located port was built at an estimated cost of...
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For the last several years, Kathmandu has faced up to 16 hours of power outage every day. Nepal has immense water resources but had lacked the know-how of harnessing hydropower. But the maj...
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Villagers in northern Laos recall the arrival of Chinese investors a few years ago. The investors offered them good money to rent their untilled land and wanted to grow bananas on it. In im...
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The Khorgos gateway is the pivot to breaking the Asian connectivity bottleneck in the global trade between East and West. This interconnection hub, located on the China-Kazakhstan border, i...
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The first China-to-Britain freight train arrived in London on 18 January 2017 after a 18-day, 7,500-mile journey, making it the longest railway freight route in the world. Marking a milesto...
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The other major railway route is the China to Iran line. Branching off from the London line after Khorgos, the railway line traverses Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan passing through a number of...
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Turkmenistan has been a major beneficiary of the Belt and Road Initiative, bringing its vast natural resources to market via the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline, like the one pictured above...
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Russia has joined hands with China for the Belt and Road Initiative. Russia’s geopolitical aims include containing the influence of the US and its allies in the region and maintaining the s...
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China has acquired stakes in key Russian industry projects like the construction of an LNG plant at Sabetta on the Yamal Peninsula in the north. The aim is to expand into the country's oil ...
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The newly built Gwadar port is the crux of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the BRI’s flagship project for convenient access to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. The first Chine...
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India has refused to join the Belt and Road Initiative so far, citing concerns about sovereignty and territorial integrity, and objecting to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) pass...
