Silk Road

As Xi visits Vietnam, China offers rail grants, pushes digital silk road

China is ready to offer grants to Vietnam to boost the railway between Kunming and the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong, and other transport links from southern China to Hanoi

Troubled power plant leaves Jordan in debt to China, raises concerns

Jordan's Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source of energy while solidifying its relations with China. But weeks after its official opening, the site, a sea of black, crumbly rock in the barren desert south of Jordan's capital, is instead a source of heated controversy. Deals surrounding the plant put Jordan on the hook for billions of dollars in debt to China all for a plant that is no longer needed for its energy, because of other agreements made since the project's conception. The result is fueling tensions between China and Jordan and causing grief for the Jordanian government as it tries to contest the deal in an international legal battle. As Chinese influence grows in the Middle East and America withdraws, the $2.1 billion shale oil station has come to characterize China's wider model that has burdened many Asian and African states with crippling debt and served as a cautionary tale for the ...

China spent $240 billion to bail out nations with Belt & Road loans

Beijing now fast catching up with the IMF as a lender of last resort

China to push for building 'Polar Silk Road' in Arctic Ocean

This raises prospects for the emergence of a new sea route

WATCH: In China for Silk Road meet, Putin plays the piano as he waits on Xi

While waiting on Xi, Putin played the melodies of two songs about Moscow and Saint Petersburg

China to push Silk Road projects after UNSC endorsement

China's official assertion comes notwithstanding India's sovereignty concerns in PoK

Silk Road faces roadblock in Sri Lanka as China toughens stance

Protests have erupted over land acquisition for industrial zone in Sri Lanka

Banker fears flow of Chinese goods on Silk Road in Pakistan

Pak may be unprepared for a rush of wares from its larger neighbour that it can't compete against

Nepal PM Prachanda to participate in China's Belt and Road Initiative

Foreign Relations Advisor to Prachanda said that Nepal PM reiterated the country's active participation in the initiative

China proposes 'Digital Silk Road' for scientific co-operation

The event was attended by over 300 Earth observation scholars and experts from more than 40 countries and regions along the Belt and Road

Silk Road initiative not 'Monroe Doctrine': China

The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823