Silk Road Development Weekly – October 22, 2018
All the latest from the Belt and Road and beyond.
Compiled by Chris Devonshire-Ellis
Analysis and Opinion
- One Belt One Road – Implications For Connectivity And Regional Trade: Forecast To 2030 (Report Linker)
- Even Though Big Numbers, Funds For The One Belt One Road Initiative Means Equivilent Of 1% Of China’s GDP (The Corner)
- New Silk Road: Realizing China’s Dream (Euromoney)
- Travelling 60,000 km Across China’s Belt & Road (Reconnecting Asia)
- Major Powers Strategize To Counter Influence Of The Belt & Road (The Asset)
- Be Afraid? Be Very Afraid? Why The United States Needs A Counterstrategy To China’s Belt & Road Initiative (CSIS)
- Trump Reaches For Checkbook Diplomacy To Counter China (Foreign Policy)
- Trump Strikes A Blow In US-China Struggle With Build Act To Contain Xi’s Belt & Road (South China Morning Post)
- Trump’s Principled Realism Versus China’s Belt & Road (Hellenic Shipping News)
- China’s Belt & Road At 5: “One To Many” Or “Many To One” (Financial Times)
- At The Dawn Of Belt & Road: China In The Developing World (Rand)
- China, Belt & Road Countries Seek Deeper Cooperation On Energy (Xinhua)
- Caution, Cancellations, Protests As Concerns Grow On China’s Belt & Road (Voice of America)
- China’s Road Initiative Hits Rough Patch (New Indian Express)
- China’s Belt & Road Initiative: The Sum Of Messy Parts (Asia Sentinel)
- China Trying To Use Tibetan Buddhism To Promote Belt & Road Initiative (New Indian Express)
- Chinese Mercenaries Are Tightening Security On Belt & Road (Sri Lanka Mirror)
Finance
- The Cost Of China’s Belt & Road (CIGI)
- Mike Pompeo Warns Panama And Other Nations About Accepting China Belt & Road Loans (South China Morning Post)
- China’s Belt & Road Initiative: Debt Trap Or Hope? (Straits Times)
- To Solve China’s Belt & Road Financing Problem, Hong Kong Looks To Infrastructure-Backed Securities
Regional
- Europe’s Emerging Approach To China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Carnegie)
- The EU Commission’s “EU-Asia Connectivity Strategy” Omits China (China Briefing)
- France Lends Support To Belt & Road Initiative (Dawn)
- France Sounds Cautious Note On China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Bloomberg)
- China Is Forced To Reconsider It’s Route Into Eastern Europe (Bloomberg)
- Azerbaijan Signs Belt & Road Energy Partnership Declaration In China (Photo)
- Baku Is One Of The Main Hubs Along The Belt & Road Initiative: Barcelona Port (Trend)
- Iran Ships Millions Of Barrels Of Oil To China as US Sanctions Loom (Sputnik)
- Russia, Uzbekistan May Create Central Asian Energy Ring (Azernews)
- Presidents Give Start To Construction Project Of First NPP In Uzbekistan (Tass)
- Malaysian Rethink On Projects Risks Contagion In The Region (Financial Times)
- China’s Belt & Road Hits Bumps In Laos (FPIF)
- Indonesian Hydroelectric Dam Project Backed By China Threatens World’s Rarest Orangutang (Straits Times)
- Chinese Part Of Belt & Road Bridge With Russia Completed (Out-Law)
- Japan Firms Hopping On Modern Silk Road Railway Under China’s One Belt One Road (Mainichi)
- Putin Backs Creation Of Free Trade Zone Between Egypt & Eurasian Economic Union (Tass)
- Africa, Middle East Strategically Positioned To Capitalise On Belt & Road (Arabian Business)
