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    Silk Road Development Weekly

    China’s Project Of The Century (SupChina) The West Can’t Smell What Eurasia Is Cooking (Sputnik) China Speeds Up Construction of Air Silk Road (Belt Road Portal) Highway Bridge Connecting China & Russia Under Construction (Belt Road Portal) Lessons From Kenya’s New, Chinese Funded Railway (Chatham House) Is China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Good, Bad Or A Disaster[…..]

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    AIIB Makes First Equity Investment Into India

    China’s wooing of India continues with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announcing its first equity investment, signing off USD150 million in funding to the India Infrastructure Fund in a move aimed at attracting sought after private investment capital for infrastructure projects in India. The bank also announced that next year’s board of governors meeting[…..]

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    Argentina, Madagascar & Tonga Join AIIB, Funding Announced For Georgia & Tajikistan Projects

    The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has just held its second annual meeting in Jeju, South Korea. This article discusses the meeting’s key resolutions, including expanded membership and co-financing initiatives.

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    Eurasian Economic Union Working on Tax Harmonization

    The article discusses the progress made concerning the introduction of tax harmonization within the Eurasian Economic Union, the recently formed trade bloc that features Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

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    China’s New Silk Road Route: OBOR, The Long & Winding Road (PwC) Can OBOR Be Made To Work For Countries Other Than China? (The Wire) How Japan, India And The TPP Could Challenge China In Asia (The Asset) China’s OBOR Makes Marshall Plan Look Tiny (Value Walk) Vietnam Convergence On Belt & Road Infrastructure Projects[…..]

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    Will China’s OBOR Hit A Silk Road Ceiling?

    China’s OBOR projects, thus far well illustrated by the Official OBOR Portal, have been exclusively driven by Chinese State Owned Enterprises. This article discusses the shortcomings of such a policy and makes the case for international private sector participation.

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    Devaluation of USD Predicted as China & Russia Buy Up Gold Reserves

    Philip Klinkmüller, a financial partner with German based Hopf-Klinkmüller Capital Management has stated there is a visible trend in China and Russia to buy more bullion to end their dependency on the US dollar, and has suggested that over the next two decades global financial markets will see a significant devaluation of the US Dollar.[…..]

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    Hong Kong Buys First Bank Under OBOR Initiative

    Hong Kong’s CITIC Bank International has completed the purchase of 60% of equity in Kazakhstan’s Altyn Bank from its majority Kazak owner, the Halyk Bank for an undisclosed amount. It marks the first time that China has invested in Kazakhstan’s banking sector. CITIC Bank International is a Hong Kong based bank controlled by mainland CITIC[…..]

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    Bigger Shanghai Co-Operation Organization May Be Game-Changer (Asia Times) Travel The Silk Road At Your Peril (The Asset) NASDAQ Signs Technology Agreement For Kazak Exchange (Astana Times) How The Gulf States Row Is Blocking China’s New Silk Road (South China Morning Post) Indian Drug Companies To Start Work In Irkutsk (Sputnik) Sri Lanka Benefits From[…..]

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    China, Nepal Discuss USD8 Billion Cross Border Rail Link Through Himalayas

    Nepal is in talks with China to build a cross-border rail link that may cost up to USD8 billion, with groundwork and funding to be expected after Nepal formally signed up to Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, a Nepali finance ministry official has stated. Yug Raj Pandey, an under-secretary at Nepal’s ministry of finance, has[…..]

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