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    COVID19: A Long Term Socio-Economic Issue for China’s Belt & Road Initiative?

    Op/Ed By Andre Wheeler Stories of the economic impact of the Coronavirus are plentiful, with daily reports of financial and market meltdown. Panic buying and strained supply chains through travel and border restrictions has seen global trade contract at alarming rates. Trying to balance economic and health priorities has unfortunately seen a polarisation of world[…..]

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    India and Russia To Connect Supply Chains Via Iran’s INSTC

    India’s state-owned Container Corporation of India (Concor) and Russian Railways Logistics Joint Stock Company (RZD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to transport cargo between India and Russia – based on a single invoice – via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a 7,200-km multi-modal transportation network project cutting right across Central Asia, starting in[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – March 23, 2020

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion US And China: Engagement, Strategic Competition & Beyond (Eurasia Review) How Asia Perceives China In The Context Of BR: Poll (Asia Dialogue) China’s Luban Workshops & BRI – Emerging Patterns (Eurasia Review)  China’s Belt & Road Initiative And Its Strategic Intent (Financial Times Lanka) The Chinese Are Coming,[…..]

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    Coronavirus Update In The Caucasus & Central Asia

    Last updated June 11.

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    China-Kazakh Cross Border Market At Horgos Reopens

    The China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center has reopened after being closed from January 29th. On March 15, the Chinese side of the cooperation center began to resume operations.

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    Shanghai Cooperation Organisation To Introduce ‘Mutual Settlement In National Currencies’ And Ditch US Dollar

    The eight-member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including China, Russia, and India, have made the decision to conduct bilateral trade and investment and issue bonds in local and national currencies instead of US dollars. Details, a road map will be finalized and signed at SCO’s Finance Ministers’ meeting in Moscow tomorrow. Russia is[…..]

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    Belt And Road Countries Affected By Covid-19

    Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis There has been a great deal of media speculation concerning China’s Belt & Road Initiative and the Covid-19 outbreak, with some commentators suggesting it is a ‘communist’ disease and others stating the Belt & Road “is being lashed” by the virus. These are rather strange comments, and quite how the Wall[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – March 16, 2020

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Is China Turning Indo-Pacific Concept Into Reality? (New Age) The Hidden Dangers Of China’s Digital Silk Road (The National Interest) US, Indonesia In Digital Challenge To China’s BRI (Asia Times) Xenophobia, Patriarchy And China’s Immigration Problem (The Diplomat) China Launches Beidou Satellite, Aims For Completion Of Navigation Network[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – March 9, 2020

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Economic Rivals Failing To Compete (Asia Times) China’s Foreign Trade Down 11% (Belt & Road News) America And China In Geostrategic Rivalry (Sunday Guardian) Is China’s Belt & Road Initiative The Start Of A New Cold War? (Splash 247) US Senators Introduce Legislation To Monitor China’s Overseas[…..]

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    Corporate Income, Withholding, & VAT Tax Rates In Countries Along China’s Belt & Road Initiative

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China has signed Belt & Road agreements with some 147 countries and territories globally. The majority of these are emerging economies, yet collectively useful to China as they present the future trading patterns China wishes to see develop. In this list therefore is ‘something for everyone.’

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