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China’s High-Speed Dream Hits the Buffers
China’s high-speed rail ambitions are running off the tracks, the Financial Times reports in a special investigation that draws from Reconnecting Asia’s database. Several projects have been suspended or canceled, “stoking suspicion, public animosity, and mountains of debt.”
The Case for a Trans-Caspian Bridge
The classic cases of strategic infrastructure investments are of course the Roman road network that started with the Appian way and China’s 1,794-kilometer “Grand Canal” from the Yellow to the Yangtze rivers. Both date back to the ...
China to shape international trade via Belt and Road
The Belt and Road initiative’s potential impact on international trade — cargo volume and velocity, shipping routes, supply chain reliability, and transparency — has strategic benefits ...
Russia-China Slow to Gain from Belt and Road Cooperation
After a recent state visit to Moscow, Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his commitment to linking China's Belt and Road initiative with the Russia-led ...
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