BRI

The $5.9 billion railway, an impressive feat of Chinese engineering, is set to tie Laos ever closer to its northern neighbor.

How Chinese policy and commercial banks are behaving operationally in their foreign lending activities is shifting, but not necessarily diminishing.

Is China’s CR Express destined for the industrial graveyard of Eurasian economic policy history?

Rejigging the BRI to focus on soft infrastructure projects in the digital and health sectors could help rejuvenate the initiative in a post-COVID world.

Far from being a strategic masterplan, the BRI is a chaotic enterprise that contains the seeds of its own negation.

The kicking off of track laying work spotlighted the development of a key infrastructure project within the bilateral relationship.

The first Chinese leader to visit Nepal since 1996, Xi’s trip carries with it high expectations and geopolitical undertones.

The BRI has provided much-needed development, but it has also generated more authoritarianism.

Italy would have been better served showing solidarity with Europe and negotiating with China from a position of strength.

A closer look at the dynamics behind the subregion’s continued management of the opportunities and challenges within the evolving initiative.  

Jakarta may welcome, and need, Chinese investment; but it needs to mitigate the risks.