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Browse our analysis section for news and articles on topics such as China's Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR), the world's evolving digital infrastructure competition, and the stakes for U.S. policy.

Japan Boosts Africa Ties | Aug. 27, 2019, 10:17 a.m.

Japan is encouraging its companies to work with African startups in a push to boost its national profile on the continent and compete with Chinese investment under its Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, Nikkei reports.

Fear Won’t Stop China’s Digital Silk Road | July 12, 2019, 1:52 p.m.

If the United States and its allies want to prevent China from dominating next-generation technologies and networks, they must incentivize Western companies to take greater risks in next-generation markets.

G-20 to Sign Infrastructure Guidelines | June 3, 2019, 9:17 a.m.

At this week's Group of 20 meeting in Japan, finance ministers and central bankers are expected to sign sustainable infrastructure investment guidelines to help prevent developing economies from taking on dangerous amounts of debt, reports the Nikkei Asian Review.

ASEAN+3 to Insure Infrastructure Financing | May 6, 2019, 9:08 a.m.

ASEAN members plus China, Japan and South Korea agreed to create a framework insuring private funding for infrastructure projects of up to $1.5 billion under a new program to be called the Infrastructure Investors Partnership, reports Nikkei.

Infrastructure Boosts Philippines, India Competitiveness | Oct. 18, 2018, 9:05 a.m.

Philippines and India have risen through the ranks in the World Economic Forum's latest Global Competitiveness Report, as the countries made improvements in infrastructure and innovation.

Belt & Road Bolsters China’s Technological Clout | Sept. 24, 2018, 9:10 a.m.

"As demand for network bandwidth grows among Belt and Road countries, China will exert its technological dominance and set global standards through centrally-coordinated fiber-optic roll-outs, the establishment of data centers, and the deployment of communications, positioning, and observation satellites."

Asia Leads 2017 Private Participation in Infrastructure | April 19, 2018, 5:16 p.m.

Quotes and Quotas is a digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.

Russia and China in the Arctic | March 19, 2018, 10:46 a.m.

Quotes and Quotas is a digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.

Special Report: Asian Infrastructure and Trade | May 15, 2017, 10:25 a.m.

Asia’s infrastructure push could create new alliances, reports FT emerging markets editor James Kynge, drawing upon Reconnecting Asia’s “Competing Visions” map series.

Disrupting Development Finance | Feb. 2, 2017, 1:19 p.m.

The challenge today for multilateral development banks is not how to mobilize excess savings but how to catalyze abundant capital for development.

Macquarie CEO: Infrastructure on the Rise | Jan. 18, 2017, 12:05 a.m.