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    How Is RCEP Likely To Impact On China’s Belt And Road Initiative?

    Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru & Turkey all have reasons to be looking at their RCEP nations Free Trade Agreements By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest regional free trade agreement covering the world’s largest population, became effective on January 1, 2022. The RCEP trade bloc[…..]

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    Unlocking US Sanctions: China Signs Construction & Energy Deals With Cuba

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Beijing is slowly unpicking Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.   Sometimes, you just have to be patient. Cuba, the Caribbean nation long a thorn in the side of the United States since Fidel Castro took control of the island against US wishes, has managed to get around crippling US[…..]

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    China Opens New Consulate in Bandar Abbas To Support Iranian Belt And Road

    Mohammad-Hossein Malaek, former Iranian ambassador to China and Switzerland, has said a new Chinese consulate in Bandar Abbas port city will foster Beijing’s economic presence on Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline. Malaek told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) that Beijing anticipated a leading role in developing the Makran region, the coastal strip along Iran’s[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – January 3 2022

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion The Chinese Grand Strategy: An Overview of The Causes And Consequences Of The Belt And Road (Modern Diplomacy) Belt & Road Phase 2 Moves Beyond Infrastructure (Asia Times) A Transatlantic Strategy to Check China’s Belt and Road Initiative (National Interest) EU Envisages Strategy To Counter China’s Belt and[…..]

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    Armenia And Azerbaijan To Proceed Trans-Nakhchivan Railway With Links To Iran

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Railway will finally connect Armenia with BRI and INSTC Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to a railway building programme that European and Russian leaders hope will repair trust in the Caucasus after a 2020 war that killed 7,000 people. Under the plan, unveiled after meetings between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime[…..]

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    China’s Outbound Investment Into ASEAN Compared With US Investment into Mexico and Central America

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Showcasing China’s desire to develop bilateral trade via the BRI against the US desire to reduce migration and boost exports. The B3W is a very different animal to the Belt and Road Initiative. The United States ‘Build Back Better World‘ (B3W) program has hit political stumbling blocks with various Senators questioning the[…..]

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    China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 27 2021

    Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion How Non-Member Nations Can Access The January 1st RCEP Free Trade Agreement Through The Back Door (Silk Road Briefing) A Transatlantic Strategy To Check China’s Belt and Road Initiative (National Interest) China Is Not Ten Feet Tall (Foreign Affairs) How INGOs Mediate China’s “Going Out” Strategy (Oxford University[…..]

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    Pakistan-Iran-Turkey Rail Freight Line Reopens After Ten Years

    Islamabad-Istanbul rail service resumes and will boost trade among the Economic Cooperation Organisation countries The first freight train to run from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed after a 10-year hiatus in a major boost to the trading capabilities of the three founders of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).

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    How Non-Member Nations Can Access The January 1st RCEP Free Trade Agreement Through The Back Door

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Great Britain, Russia And The United States can all leverage RCEP advantages via other agreements they already have in place  The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement comes into effect from January 1st, when all member nations can embark on duty free trade with each other provided they meet certain quality[…..]

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    Uzbekistan Prises Open Door To RCEP By Moving Along With South Korea Free Trade Agreement

    By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  South Korea and Uzbekistan agreed last Friday (December 17) to expedite efforts to clinch a bilateral free trade agreement and to boost cooperation on stable supply chains of key industrial items, Seoul’s finance ministry has said.

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