Silk Road Development Weekly
All the latest news, opinion and analysis along the Silk & Belt Routes
Opinion
- China’s Progress In Advanced Infrastructure Over 100 Times Faster Than US: Elon Musk (People’s Daily)
- Will Trump Make China Great Again? The Belt And Road Initiative And International Order (Oxford Academic)
- China’s Belt Road Initiative – Regional Responses & Implications (Clingendael)
- Beijing Firms To Bring Tech To Belt & Road Countries (Xinhua)
- China To Push Forward Belt & Road Co-Operation (Guangming)
- Caterpillar Drives Sales On China’s New Silk Road (Reuters)
- Why English Law Could Rule On Belt & Road Disputes (South China Morning Post)
- No Backroom Deals, Everything is Transparent. China Defends Belt & Road Investments – South China Morning Post
- Will China’s Belt & Road Outdo The Marshall Plan? (The Economist)
- Next Phase Of Belt And Road: Xi’s Own Military Industrial Complex (Nikkei Asian Review)
- China Seen Slowing Spending On Belt & Road Energy Projects (Bloomberg)
Finance
- China’s Diplomacy Budget Doubles Under Xi Jinping (Financial TImes)
- 13th NPC – More Financing Support For Belt & Road (The Standard)
- AIIB To Invest US$200 Million In Indian Infrastructure Fund (The Asset)
- Asian Infrastructure Development Bank – Challenging The Credibility Of The Belt & Road Initiative (Financial Express)
- ADB Seeks Instos To Set Up Infrastructure Co-Investment Platform (Asian Investor)
- Specified Bond Business Requirements to Improve the “Belt and Road” Service Quality (Shenzhen Stock Exchange)
- Is China’s Belt & Road A Risk Worth Taking For Foreign investors? (South China Morning Post)
- China’s One Belt One Road Investments Will Bankrupt Countries It Partners With (Epoch Times)
Regional
- China’s Trans-Eurasia Trade Routes: Outlook For 2018 (Global Risk Insights)
- Finnish President Hails China Over Belt And Road, Arctic White Paper (Shanghai Daily)
- Co-Operation & Competition Between Russia and China In Central Asia, Russian Far East & The Arctic (Carnegie)
- Kazakhstan Expands Its Transit Potential for Europe (Georgia Today)
- Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Sees First Container Vessel (Global Times)
- Hong Kong Solutions For Metals Anticipates Belt and Road Related Growth In Southeast Asia (Belt & Road)
- Africa Eats Up Lion’s Share Of China’s Lending (Financial Times)
- Ethiopia – China Relations Beyond Economic Cooperation (All Africa)
- South Africa’s Dilemma In The Belt And Road Initiative: Losing Africa For China? (FES)
- China’s Belt & Road Driving Projects In Africa (Daily Nation)
- Belt & Road Facilitating Entry Of Chinese Products In Africa (Belt & Road Blog)
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Silk Road Briefing is produced by Dezan Shira & Associates. The firm provides business intelligence, investment advisory, due diligence, tax advisory, corporate establishment and structuring, accounting, payroll and related professional services throughout China, India, ASEAN, Russia and the Eurasian region, servicing both Governments and Multinational clients. To contact us please email silkroad@dezshira.com or visit us at www.dezshira.com
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