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    Silk Road Development Weekly – June 10, 2019

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Belt & Road Review: A Chinese World Order (Wall Street Journal) Five Myths About China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Washington Post) Belt & Road Quarterly Q2 2019 (Economist Intelligence Unit) The Belt & Road Initiative Spreads (Liberty) Making Sense Of Five Years Of China’s Belt & Road Initiative[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road Initiative & The United Kingdom

    Belt & Road Projects Could Be Via The Commonwealth of Nations Where UK-China Interests Overlap The Formation Of A Commonwealth-China Development Bank One Way To Assist China & Access Projects  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  The UK has not signed up to China’s Belt & Road Initiative, although the current British Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, did visit[…..]

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    A Eurasian Central Clearing Bank Is The Next Logical Step For China, Eurasia And The Belt & Road

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis News has emerged this week that Iran, which holds the worlds second-largest reserves of natural gas, is partnering with Turkey to jointly establish a new trading bank, and to ditch the US dollar in bilateral trade. The number of countries, especially those along the Belt & Road routes that are looking[…..]

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    Silk Road Development Weekly – June 3, 2019

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Making A Multilateral Belt & Road (East Asia Forum) New Report On The Chinese Belt & Road Initiative Shows Boost To Global GDP “By Over $7 Trillion Per Annum” (Chartered Institute Of Building) Washington Expects China To Back Down In The Trade War, But With Presidents Xi &[…..]

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    Malta. Can It Become The Belt & Road’s Stepping Stone Between Africa And Europe?

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Smaller countries can face challenges when facing up to the bigger picture While it was Italy’s recent signing of a Belt & Road MoU with China that attracted media attention, the first EU member state to have done so was in fact Malta. One of the EU’s smallest members in terms[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road Initiative And South America

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s push into South America has not been quite as dynamic as its push into Africa, although it is gathering steam. As we have already noted in our Belt & Road articles on the Caribbean and Central America, part of the Belt & Road drive in the region has been to[…..]

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    The African Continental Free Trade Agreement And Its Impact On China

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s moves into Africa should not really come as any great surprise – the Chinese African diaspora has long been energetic and far reaching, mostly involved in trade. Many of them have African roots dating back centuries, with artifacts still cropping up on the East African coast from Chinese Admiral Zheng[…..]

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    The Belt & Road Initiative In Mexico & Central America

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s Belt & Road Initiative has been making significant inroads in the Caribbean and Latin America, and in this article we take a look at the impact on Mexico and Central America. Mexico in fact has not signed a MoU with China concerning the Belt & Road, yet its regional impact[…..]

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    Silk Road Development Weekly – May 27, 2019

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion The US, Huawei And The Belt & Road’s New 5G Supply Chains (Silk Road Briefing) Xi’s Belt-Road Initiative: Recalibration, Strategic Imperatives – Analysis (Eurasia Review) The Belt & Road Initiative Is Short Of Chinese Characteristics (Financial Times) Standard Chartered: Financial Transparency Spurs More Belt & Road Projects (China[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road – The Caribbean & West Indies

    Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China’s diplomatic and trade reach in pursuit of its Belt & Road Initiative has included the Caribbean and West Indies, and rubs up against both the United States and to a lesser degree the United Kingdom in doing so. At present, about a third of the major island groupings have signed[…..]

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