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China's Belt and Road Initiative is neither a "Marshall Plan" for Eurasia and Africa nor a form of "debt-trap diplomacy."
The debt alarm being set off by international debt management organizations is exaggerated.
Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.
Iran’s attractiveness to Central Asian nations increases the Islamic republic’s importance to the Belt and Road, China’s infrastructure, transportation and...
What do these three things have in common: a Kyrgyz gold mine, a Malaysian Ponzi scheme, and canned camel milk?
The Kyrgyz government rushed a tender. It didn’t go well.
China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2013. The BRI...
China is exporting its model of invasive, all-encompassing surveillance to Central Asia, often for free.
Rallies began as talk circulated about plans to build dozens of factories.
Moody's report predicts Chinese companies will become more selective and cautious when investing in overseas projects.