Category: Belt and Road

After years of dithering, Brazil will reportedly not join China’s trillion-dollar connectivity project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI.) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s special presidential advisor on International affairs, Celso Amorim, told O Globo newspaper that Brazil wants to advance its relationship with China without ...

By Jiang Mengnan In June of this year, the Bank of China (BOC) issued the first sustainable development bonds, for which all funds raised were directed towards countries affiliated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to the bank’s website. The ...

By Matt Sandy As China’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its second decade, the country appears on the verge of persuading Brazil to make the significant decision to finally sign up to its flagship overseas investment programme.'

Last year, the European Union renewed its economic and strategic interest in Latin America by announcing investments of EUR 45 billion (USD 48.7 billion), seen by many as a way to regain influence in the face of China’s growing presence in the region.

Pakistan has compiled a wish list of more than seventy projects for the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development zone. The list will be handed over to Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, during a meeting next month, according to Pakistan’s Ministry of Planning, Development, and ...

By Lukas Fiala Last week’s Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong served as a reminder of the conflicted ongoing legacy of the BRI over a decade after its initiation. When first articulated as a strategic vision to connect China with ...

Hong Kong will occupy a pivotal position in the Belt and Road Initiative, with Chinese officials saying its role as a financial and services hub is “irreplaceable.” The city hosted the ninth Belt and Road Summit on Wednesday. Li Yongjie, China’s deputy international ...

2024 has been a pivotal year for Brazil-China relations. Last month marked 50 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations, and in celebration of this milestone, President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Brazil by the end of the year. ...

China has vowed to beef up its vast Belt and Road global infrastructure initiative, promising "high-quality cooperation" ahead of a summit with African leaders in Beijing starting on Wednesday. Africa is already a key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region, with ...

By Alvaro Mendez and Chris Alden Thursday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Brasília and Beijing, which began on 15 August 1974, when Brazil became the tenth country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to ...

This article is authored by Han Noy and Sim Chansamnang, both freelance journalists based in Cambodia. In June, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet announced that Cambodians would control 51% of the controversial Funan Techo Canal. Previously, Chinese investors owned the ...

The Myanmar junta's second-in-command arrived in China on Saturday for an official visit, the junta's information team said, as clashes with ethnic minority fighters raged in the north of the country despite a Beijing-brokered ceasefire. Vice-senior General Soe Win arrived in ...