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  September 5, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – September 6 2021

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Science & Technology To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road (Shine) Implications Of Integration In Global Digital Supply Chains (Smart Maritime Network) The Ulterior Motives Of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (The Epoch Times) Making A Killing (Hudson) The Pandemic-Induced BRI: Then, Now And What’s Next?[…..]
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  September 2, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  The Afghan Commodities The United States & EU Wanted, But China, India And Russia Now Intend To Develop

  Afghanistan’s huge mineral wealth and development opportunities are heading East, not West The underlying reasons for the US and NATO’s operations in Afghanistan, prompted by the faster than expected success of the Taliban taking control were strongly hinted at by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell last week, at[…..]
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  September 1, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Egypt & Saudi Arabia To Join Shanghai Cooperation Organisation As Dialogue Partners

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Move helps plan Afghanistan restructuring and means increased regional dialogue exists to solve regional issues Both Egypt and Saudi Arabia are about to become Dialogue Partners of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The SCO includes China, as well as three EAEU nations Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, the CIS nations of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan[…..]
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  August 31, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Xi Gives Clarity With More To Come On Financial & Big Tech Control

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Clampdowns are a rejection of the US based economic model China’s Xi Jinping and the CPC have given clear indications to the financial markets that a new, third path is developing as concerns Chinese involvement in global financial participation from China’s financial sector.
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  August 30, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Xinjiang – Central Asia’s Wealthy, Prepared, & Influential Trade & Investment Partner

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Central Asian investment trade and development capital is already being raised via Urumqi MNC, Shanghai IPOs While the immediate future of Afghanistan still lies in the balance and will apparently take a while to settle down, Central Asia elsewhere is rebuilding and reestablishing trade and commercial ties. What can be expected[…..]
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  August 29, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – August 30 2021

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion BRI Vs B3W (The Nation) BRI Fulfils UN Charter Spirit (The News) Rethink Power In A New Era Of Great Power Competition (The National Interest) Negotiating From Strength: Washington, Beijing And Climate Change (The Hill) US Agency Countering China’s New Silk Road Touts Values Based Alternative Focus (Yahoo[…..]
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  August 27, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Horgos Port Develops As Xinjiang Becomes An Important Hub For Chinese & Central Asia Rail Freight To Europe

  China’s Western Xinjiang Province, the subject of much political debate in the EU concerning China’s treatment of the Uyghurs, has increased the volume of containers it sends to Europe. Fourteen new freight train routes through Horgos, in northwest Xinjiang to other cities in China, Europe and Central Asia have opened since January this year, making[…..]
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  August 25, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Taliban Says OK For Afghanistan TAPI Gas Pipeline Work To Continue As Kabul Banks Reopen

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Signs of normality returning as Afghani banks reopen and national infrastructure projects restart Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that one of the group’s main priorities, once it has established itself in power in Afghanistan, is to push ahead with the TAPI gas pipeline that Turkmenistan hopes will link its gas fields to[…..]
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  August 24, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Beijing-Moscow Direct Rail Back On The Agenda As The Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye Amur River Bridge Is Set To Open

  The romance of the Trans-Siberian railway from Beijing to Moscow is set to receive a boost as a new bridge—part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative—will now connect China and Russia’s railway systems and is set to open by the year end. The China-Russia Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye Bridge connects Tongjiang, a city in China’s far northeastern Heilongjiang[…..]
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  August 23, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Future Trade And Development Intent With Afghanistan

  By Melissa Cyril and Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s bilateral trade with Afghanistan is on track to overtake by 2024 the volume the United States managed over 20 years with an investment of US$2.26 trillion While the current situation in Afghanistan is obviously currently unstable, in this article we examine the role that China has had until[…..]