Beijing will play an increasingly important role in the preservation of stability in South Asia.

Civil nuclear energy presents grave pitfalls in terms of cost, innovation and security that BRI countries cannot and should not afford.

What do recent anti-China protests reveal and not reveal about the nature of Chinese overseas investment in Asian countries?

What U.S. officials get wrong about China's rise.

The conduct of Xi Jinping and the CCP will ultimately bring China a new century of shame.

A peek under the glitz of Russian-Chinese bonhomie.

Astana can't afford to push Beijing too hard, even on behalf of its own citizens detained in Xinjiang re-education camps.

In Central Asia, Chinese companies can score financing from both Beijing and local capitals. But is anyone profiting?

India’s substantive engagement with wider Central Asia will be important going forward.

Batka don’t take no mess: Belarus’ Lukashenko threatens rail transit from Asia to Europe.

The failure of the Bishkek power plant in January has had domestic fallout, but its bilateral dimension could scorch Beijing too.

Over time the BRI could threaten the very foundations of Washington’s post-WWII hegemony.

Washington’s confusion about China’s Belt and Road Initiative stands in the way of an effective alternative.

Belt and Road is not the Marshall Plan: it’s comprised of loans, not grants, and China expects a return for its money.

The revived TPP 11 operates as a significant alternative to China's approach, embodied in the Belt and Road Initiative.

Looking for good publications on the Belt and Road Initiative? Ignore the ones with maps. (Well, maybe not all.)