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Chinese High-Speed Rail in Southeast Asia
"I really like China" a diplomat told us a few months ago, "they are the only ones around with a plan for the 21st century." That plan – China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) – has, however, raised ample concern, from Asia all the way to the Berlin and Washington. Assessments of its potential to disrupt the established economic, political, and diplomatic status quo in Eurasia have led some to perceive it as China’s own “Marshal Plan,” “Great Game,” and “challenge to the US.”
As a component of China’s BRI, Beijing’s high-speed rail (HSR) diplomacy illustrates both China ...
Ukraine’s Western Window
Several Russian-led infrastructure projects, coupled with the devastation wrought by the conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region, risk turning Ukraine, historically a bridge between east and west, into an island.
Where Does China's Belt and Road Go?
According to a report issued by Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency in August, Xi Jinping in addition to his role as Party Secretary, President ...
Slow Trade due to China Slowdown, but BRI may help
Anti-globalization sentiment is not the main cause of weakening trade across the world, as a slowdown in China and the collapse of commodities prices are ...
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