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    China’s 2021 Progress Across The African Belt & Road Initiative

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  China’s Foreign Minister Visited 5 African Countries last week BRI MoU signed with Botswana & Democratic Republic of Congo  Chinese firms win US$1.36 billion Tanzania Rail Contract  Preparations underway for 2021 FOCAC Summit    

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – January 11, 2021

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion What’s Happening With China’s Belt & Road Initiative? (CGTN) The Storming Of The US Senate And The Implications For China & Russia (Silk Road Briefing) Biden Must Make China More Accountable For Its Belt & Road Initiative (The Hill) China Splits Atlantic With Game-Changing EU Investment Deal (Nikkei[…..]

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    Azerbaijan Looks For Pakistani Manufacturing & Export Investments

    Azerbaijan is keen to promote bilateral trade with Pakistan as both countries have tremendous scope to enhance trade and economic cooperation in many fields, said Azerbaijan Ambassador Ali Alizada last week. During his meeting with the business community at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), he said, “Azerbaijan and Pakistan enjoy excellent relations at the[…..]

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    The Storming Of The US Senate And The Implications For China & Russia

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  The scenes played out in Washington DC last night appear unique in the context of the United States recent political history, but they are far from being so elsewhere. Just last year there were mass anti-Government protests in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Hong Kong, and Serbia, while in 2019 mass protests were[…..]

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    Kim Jong-Un’s Speech In Full At The North Korean Workers Party Congress: Analysis

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Juche ideology of self-sufficiency acts as a trade deterrent  Reliance on Cadres to report accurately could be problematic  Solutions mean there is potential for North Korea to join the Belt & Road Initiative  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un introduced the country’s first ruling Workers Party Congress in five years on[…..]

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    Why The China Mauritius Free Trade Agreement Opens Up The African Belt And Road

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Teething problems in bilateral trade to be solved by Mauritius move to services provision Mauritius is an offshore gateway to Africa  Pan-African Continental Free Trade Agreement also came into effect from January 1.  China and Mauritius signed off a Free Trade Agreement earlier this year, China’s first with any African nation.[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – January 4, 2021

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Past Week’s Global Media Commentary About The Belt & Road Initiative   Analysis & Opinion Biden Must Make China More Accountable For Its Belt & Road Initiative (The Hill) Why Does The U.S. Counter China’s Initiative? (Donga) The Times View On The Future Of NATO: West Wings (The Times) China To[…..]

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    China to Continue Multilateral Trade Development Policy Along the Belt and Road Initiative In 2021 – More EU Nations to Sign BRI MoU?

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Central Government’s “Economic Work Conference” just held in Beijing  New alignment between domestic and foreign trade markets   China foreign trade up 1.8% in 2020 BRI and Dual Circulation Strategy are key trade issues   The Chinese Government’s “Central Economic Work Conference” was held from December 16-18, and outlined specific tasks for 2021,[…..]

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    Chinese Companies Hunting In Latin America For Belt And Road M&A

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Chinese SOEs turn Belt and Road ODI attention to Latin America  China spent more on LatAm M&A in 2020 than in the EU and U.S. combined Latin America-China trade has doubled in past 5 years   Potential is increasing for a future China-Mercosur FTA  

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    Russia’s Kaliningrad Emerges As A Major China-Europe Multi-Modal Sea Port

    Kaliningrad offers multi-modal access to Scandinavia Reduces transport time to 15 days from 40-45  Growing need for faster sourcing responses during Covid  The first block train from China to Norway via Kaliningrad has arrived. Germany’s DB Cargo, with their “Scandinavian Shuttle”, in cooperation with Mann Lines Multimodal have launched the container service from Xian to[…..]

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