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  July 24, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – July 24, 2020

  The North Africa Issue Dark Star Safari – From Cairo To Cape Town  Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux’s now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some[…..]
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  July 22, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  The Digital Yuan & BSN Are On Track To Replace The US Dollar In China Trade

  Moves To Limit Chinese Access To The US Dollar Will Bring Forward RMB Globalization  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis The United States has apparently ‘not ruled out’ US dollar focused sanctions against China concerning Washington’s unhappiness over the situation in Hong Kong, where it has removed special trade facilities.
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  July 21, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Hong Kong Being Re-Positioned As A Belt & Road Financial Trade Centre Competing With NYSE & Nasdaq

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Hong Kong has been generating all the wrong headlines recently as new security laws passed by Beijing have resulted in apparent sanctions by the United States and punishments upon China threatened or imposed by other countries, including the United Kingdom. There have been many doom and gloom stories about Hong Kong’s immediate[…..]
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  July 20, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – July 20, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Strategic Trends 2020: China’s Belt & Road In Eurasien (CSS) China And India: Rethinking The Relationship (Financial Times) US Revokes Hong Kong’s Special Relationship. What Are The Implications?  Let China’s Belt & Road Expand To Accelerate Its Undoing (The Globe & Post)
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  July 17, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – July 17, 2020

  The US-China Trade War Edition Escape From America: How China Looks From An Expats Eyes Escape from America combines one American expat’s experience living and working in the United States and China to give an unvarnished account of the world’s dominant superpowers. From a ground-level perspective, Vinnie Apicella finds surprising likenesses between these two seemingly vastly[…..]
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  July 15, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Belt & Road Trade 30% Of China’s Total During H1 2020

  Belt & Road Initiative Nations and ASEAN Winners In The First Half Year Results China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) said yesterday that following turbulence due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the first quarter of 2020, imports and exports of the second quarter showed signs of recovery and stability, and China’s exports have risen for[…..]
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  July 13, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – July 13, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Political & Trade Uncertainty Looms In The EU & USA – But Asia And The Belt & Road Initiative Are Looking Good (Silk Road Briefing) Multilateralism With Chinese Characteristics: Bringing In The Hub & Spoke (The Diplomat) China Accelerates In Tech Race With US (Omfif) Operational Planning For[…..]
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  July 10, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – July 10, 2020

  The Georgia Edition Bread & Ashes – A Walk Through The Mountains Of Georgia Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes – Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans – to discover if they shared a common mountain culture, and to test[…..]
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  July 8, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China Government Belt & Road Initiative Loans, Q2 2020

  India does well from Chinese Institutional Funding Chinese Government funding in Q2 2020 was dominated by Covid-19 Emergency Programme (CEP) Loans by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB, also known as the BRICS bank), being two multilateral development banks. This marked a change of funding patterns away from Chinese[…..]
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  July 7, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Political & Trade Uncertainty Looms In The EU & USA – But Asia And The Belt & Road Initiative Are Looking Good

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Taking a look at how upcoming global and regional elections are taking shape gives us an interesting insight into the make up of the worlds political make up after the Covid-19 pandemic, and into the new decade of the 2020’s.