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Driving China’s Silk Road Economic Belt
At the heart of The New Silk Road Project is an attempt to move away from the reductionist characterizations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): that it is either a benign engine for transcontinental connectivity and cooperation, or an attempt to overturn the current rules-based international order. Traveling along China’s Silk Road Economic Belt from London to Yiwu in Eastern China was the centerpiece of this effort to challenge our assumptions and highlight some of the impacts of China’s growing global presence in the regions we encountered. Our 16,000-kilometer, 62-day journey gave us access to ...
It's a (Debt) Trap!
Five years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his flagship foreign policy project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Currently, total Chinese BRI investment is estimated at over $1 trillion, more than eight-times the size of the Marshall Plan in ...
Linking the Eurasian Economic Union and China’s Belt and Road
In May, a milestone agreement on trade and economic cooperation was signed between the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and China. The deal ...
Japanese Firms Expect Infrastructure Losses
Japanese engineering companies expect to book record losses on overseas infrastructure projects as shortages in technical skills and labor cause costly delays and defects.
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