By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Russian Built Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline To Finally Go Ahead Construction works on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline project are expected to begin after several rounds of consultations, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan has said in an interview in Russian media.
The first shipment of goods using a new maritime-road-rail transportation corridor has arrived at China’s Chengdu International Railway Port following the completion of the Chengdu-Lincang railway line. The new route from the China-Myanmar border gives China better connectivity to the Indian Ocean and opens the huge Sichuan Provincial markets to India and Southeast Asia. Sichuan[…..]
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Biased Washington media comes up against on the ground facts as Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port begins to turn a profit The tales of woe that are typically spread about Sri Lanka’s controversial Hambantota Port gained another member last week with the publication of an article written by Jonathan Hillman, a ‘senior fellow’[…..]
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?[…..]
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[…..]
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[…..]
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.
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[…..]
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[…..]
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[…..]