Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Beijing Briefing: Is The Belt & Road Going Nowhere? (Chatham House) China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Investment Led by Energy (Energy Intelligence) Cargo Shipped By ‘Shanghai Express’ Freight Trains Crosses 1 Billion Yuan (Fibre2Fashion) Finance China’s Emerging Belt And Road Debt Crisis (Financial Times) Dealing With Default: China Reckons[…..]
Chinese and Russian companies have been organizing regular chartered ships to ensure that much-needed goods such as raw materials can be delivered from Russia to countries such as China and India amid a transport inadequacy due to the continuous disruption posed by the West’s sanctions on Russia. The shipping service lines between Russia and other[…..]
Chinese companies bypassed sanctions and arranged their own mechanisms of settling payment of fees due to Russian and Belarus railway operators The death of the railway routes between China and the EU via Russia and Belarus (CEER) has been much exaggerated, according to an article written by Hussein Askary of the BRIX Sweden Institute, which[…..]
Algeria looking to choose globalisation over US and EU policies The Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune has stated the interest of Algeria to join the BRICS group, in an interview aired on the state-run television ENTV. Tebboune said that “there are economic conditions for joining the BRICS group, and I think Algeria meets a large proportion of these[…..]
Bishkek developing as a Central Asian ecommerce hub China is making plans to increase imports of products from Kyrgyzstan, following trade discussions during the 15th meeting of the intergovernmental Kyrgyz-Chinese commission on trade and economic cooperation last week.
Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Biden’s Latest Global Infrastructure Plan Is All About Competing With China. That’s A Problem (Vox) China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bumpy, Promising Path (Harvard Politics) Trouble at the UN: Western Member States Push Back Against Chinese-Led FAO (The Diplomat) China Missing GDP Goal a Failure (NTD) Finance[…..]
Support will be provided by Beijing to two intersecting Trans Afghanistan railway lines from Uzbekistan and Iran to Pakistan. By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Beijing is ready to support the implementation of Afghanistan transport projects, including a railway that would connect Uzbekistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul and Peshawar, in Pakistan, China’s special envoy to Afghanistan Yue[…..]
Pakistan’s energy consumer market is a population of 221 million with massive CPEC industrialization programmes underway creating huge future demands. Iran’s Petroleum Minister Minister Javad Owji has said that Iran sees prospects for cooperation with Gazprom in joint gas deliveries to neighbouring Pakistan and Oman.
Iran and Turkiye are embarking on a long-term cooperation plan devised based on the capacities of the two countries that would promote ties, according to Iran’s Ambassador in Turkiye Mohammad Farazmand.
Dubai is repositioning itself as a Gateway to billions of dollars of Asian investment Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  They’ve tended to be under the radar for many, however the Abraham Accords (AA), a series of treaties normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco are already having a[…..]