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    Niue Is a 261km Small Sized Island. But In Chinese Thinking It’s As Large As Vietnam

    Niue is one of the South Pacific islands included in Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s mission to deepen relations as part of his Pacific Islands tour. Wang spoke with Niue’s Premier and Foreign Minister Dalton Tagelagi via video on Sunday (May 29), with both sides pledging to deepen bilateral cooperation including on the Belt and Road[…..]

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    Asian Debt Traps: This Is What Happens When A Country Defaults

    Sri Lanka’s dire economic situation and what is happening to deal with it explained in full Sri Lanka has just defaulted on its sovereign debt for the first time, with the recently appointed new Prime Minister, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stating that the country’s economic situation is much worse than he expected it to be. Wickremesinghe knows[…..]

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    China Drops South Pacific Security In Pacific Islands Dialogue To Concentrate On Trade

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Beijing promotes a willingness to debate and is adopting a more reasonable tone towards regional affairs. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been holding a meeting with Pacific Island leaders in Fiji today, (Monday, May 30) where Chinese proposals to the grouping, which included Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon[…..]

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    China To Finance Development & Logistics Of Argentina’s Beagle Channel Around South America?

    China’s Antarctic and LatAm interests make a match for Argentinian developments With Argentina having joined China’s Belt & Road Initiative earlier this year, becoming the largest LatAm economy to do so, discussions are apparently taking place concerning the development of the Beagle Channel, an inland strip of water separating Argentina and Chile at the southern[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – May 30 2022

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion How China’s Efforts Are Advancing Global Development (World Economic Forum) Making The Belt and Road Initiative ‘Small and Beautiful’ (East Asia Forum) China Is Reshaping the Belt and Road Initiative Ahead Of a Post-Pandemic Era (Zawya) The Belt and Road Initiative: Innovative Chinese Ideas for a New World[…..]

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    The China-Pacific Island Countries Common Development Initiative: Content & Analysis

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  China has released a draft of a document entitled “The China-Pacific Island Countries Common Development” which has raised a storm of protest in the West, with criticisms based mainly upon proposed security activity. China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is visiting seven of the mainly small island nations on a diplomatic trip starting[…..]

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    Turkic World Aims To Unite Turkic Central Asia Via Media

    Turkic.World, the first joint media platform of Turkic-speaking countries, is marking its first anniversary. The media platform was launched in 2021 as part of the establishment of the Organisation of Turkish States, (OTS) a regional, institutionalised body that includes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Observer States include Hungary and Turkmenistan, while Afghanistan and Northern[…..]

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    Tajikistan Pins National Sustainable Development Programme on Goods Transit

    A proposed China-Central Asian highway and rail links would revolutionize the Tajik economy. The Tajikistan President, Emomali Rahmon has emphasized the importance of boosting measures to achieve national sustainable development goals, discussing these at the 78th session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Rahmon noted the importance of[…..]

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    Iran Ready To Assist In Distribution Of Russian Wheat Harvest

    The EU, short of grain, sanctioned the Russian Agricultural Bank, cannot now buy supplies, and has cut Iranian alternative transit routes off from SWIFT. The 2022 Harvest is now heading East. With the West seemingly in knots over wheat and grains supplies from the upcoming 2022 harvest, sanctions appear poised to bite them back with[…..]

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    Iran Air Cargo & Passenger Transits Up 128% On 2021

    Iranian INSTC trade routes between Europe and Asia are flourishing but when will the EU be pressured into conducting its trade purely with North America? The Ukraine conflict has resulted in unexpected increases in trade flows east, with one of the beneficiaries being Iran. This is because the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), originally intended[…..]

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