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    Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Discussing Trans-Uzbek-Afghan Railway Routes To Arabian Sea

    Serik Zhumangarin, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Trade & Integration has met with Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Prime Minister to discuss participation in the construction of the Trans-Afghan railroad.

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 26 2022

    All the latest international news, analysis and opinion from the BRI Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Economy in 2022: A Tumultuous Year Ending with an Optimistic Outlook (China Briefing) Managing Your China Manufacturing & Supply Chains During COVID Outbreaks (China Briefing) The RCEP Free Trade Agreement: A Key Factor In BRI Regional[…..]

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    Christmas Dinners Along the Old Silk Road

    Recipes and Traditions from the Three Wise Men, who came from the East   By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  It is the Christmas season, and as the Three Wise Men came from the East, we look at Christmas along the ancient and modern Silk Road and how people along it will be celebrating – or not –[…..]

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    The RCEP Free Trade Agreement A Key Factor In BRI Growth & Development

    FTA accounts for US$12.7 trillion – over 25% of global trade in goods and services  The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are contributors to regional and global economic recovery efforts, academics speaking at the 17th annual international conference on “New World Order: Competition, Integration and Multipolarity”, at the Institute[…..]

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    Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan To Give 20% Discounts For Using Eastern INSTC Rail Routes To & From Russia, Middle East, Central Asia, Indian, South Asian And Chinese Businesses

    Move will financially incentivize Middle Corridor trade while making EU-Asian routes less regionally competitive.   By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Russian Railways (RZD) , together with the railways of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran, has decided to grant reduced container-kilometer rates in 2023 for using the infrastructure of the eastern route of the North-South international transport corridor that[…..]

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    Georgia’s Trade With Russia, China & Turkiye Up 32% During 2022

    The Caucasus is moving East, not West as competitiveness, energy and supply chains all point to Asia By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Ukraine conflict has moved the Caucasus region further to the East in terms of trade, rather than towards Europe, according to preliminary data from Georgia’s national statistics office and despite EU attempts to persuade[…..]

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    Iran And Nicaragua: A Cooperation Alliance That When Looked At, Should Worry The United States

    US is losing influence in its own backyard as pariah states rebel  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Iran and Nicaragua have signed a comprehensive cooperation plan, the latest in a string of deals between countries not typically regarded as natural partners. In fact the main commonalities they both face is they are members of the Belt and[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 19 2022

    All the latest international news, analysis and opinion from the BRI Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Russia’s 2022 Trade with China – Geographic Breakdown (Russia Briefing) How Will The World Benefit From Belt and Road Initiative? (CGTN) Framing China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Global Voices) In the Asian Connectivity Race, China and Rivals[…..]

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    China, Cuba Significantly Enhance Bilateral Trade & Investment Ties

    Bilateral trade up 18% as countries expand trade, R&D and ties with Asia in numerous sectors  China’s President Xi Jinping hosted Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing late last month, with China’s foreign ministry announcing that Xi and Díaz-Canel “witnessed the signing of bilateral documents on party-to-party exchange,[…..]

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    Azerbaijan-Turkiye-Turkmenistan Summit Underway

    Discussions to solidify the Middle Corridor and provide gas corridors to Europe   The trilateral Azerbaijan-Türkiye-Turkmenistan summit is currently being held in Avasa City, on the Eastern Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan. The three countries are discussing steps to further enhance cooperation among the three countries, primarily in trade, energy, and transport.

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