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  June 23, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Ruble, Yuan & Rupee To Dominate Future Belt & Road Eurasian Transactions

  Op/ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Moves by numerous countries to move away from US dollar transactions have been gathering steam, and look set to develop further as trust in the United States continues to slump in the wake of trade threats and overly aggressive use of the US dollar as a weapon. The attitude  towards the[…..]
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  June 22, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – June 22, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Two Sessions Meetings And Belt & Road Initiative Developments (Silk Road Briefing) China To Develop Belt & Road Into Model Of Cooperation (Pakistan News) China: Victim No More (Asia Power Watch) Geopolitics After Covid-19: Conflict Or Cooperation? (The Globalist) China Tightens Its Belt & Road (Geopolitical Futures)[…..]
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  June 19, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – June 19, 2020

  Journey To The West * The Guo Brothers * Ju Duo * Baijiu Martini  Journey To The West  Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng’en. It is one of the Four Great Classics of Chinese literature and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work[…..]
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  June 19, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Turkic Council To Establish US$500 Million Investment Fund

  Intra-Grouping Trade Expected To Increase The Istanbul-initiated Turkic Council has said that it will set up a US$500m investment fund to boost economic links between member states.
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  June 18, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Uzbekistan Applies For EU GSP+ Trading Status, Doubling Duty Free Export Categories

  Increasing Trade & Export Opportunities In Uzbekistan Uzbekistan has applied to join an EU trading scheme that eases tariffs for developing countries if they improve their human rights records.
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  June 17, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Two Sessions Meetings And The Belt & Road Developments

  Global Political and Corporate Questions Arise From China’s Challenges To World Governance & Trade Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis with research by Dorcas Wong, Dezan Shira & Associates  China’s top leaders convened for the annual Two Sessions meetings at the end of May, following months of delays due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Two Sessions refer to the[…..]
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  June 15, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – June 15, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China: The End Of The Belt & Road (Euromoney) Covid-19 Exposes Soft Underbelly Of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (China Banking News) China’s Efforts To Win Hearts & Minds May Make All The Difference If There’s A Cold War With The US (The Conversation) The Trump Factor: Asian[…..]
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  June 12, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – June 12, 2020

  Riding The Iron Rooster Paul Theroux, taking the Chinese proverb ”You can always fool a foreigner” as a personal challenge, rode a series of trains from one city to another all over China for an entire year in 1988. His most steady companion during that time was a humorless Chinese bureaucrat assigned to follow him[…..]
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  June 11, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  First Gansu-Tashkent Rail Cargo Route Opens

  A China-Europe Freight Train loaded with household appliances set off from Lanzhou, the capital city of Northwest China’s Gansu Province to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
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  June 11, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Covid-19 Restrictions On Central Asian Migrant Worker Pool Impacting On Remittances & 2020 Russian Harvest Potential

  Migrant workers in Central Asia are sending back only half the remittances that they would usually send, data from the Russian Central Bank showed. It showed that in April, remittance flows from Russia to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan fell by 50% and to Georgia by 40% as the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Remittances, especially from[…..]