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‘Australia is responsible for all this’: China suspends economic dialogue with Canberra, blames ‘Cold War mentality’
Beijing, casting itself as the victim of “insane suppression” from Canberra, suspended its participation in one of the few remaining high-level diplomatic forums between Australia and China. Relations between the two countries still might not have hit bottom.
May 6, 2021 Source: The China Project
Car bombing in Pakistan hits hotel of Chinese ambassador just minutes before he arrived
Security risks remain high for Chinese interests in Pakistan: The Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a hotel where the Chinese ambassador was due to stay. Five were killed as Chinese officials were minutes away from the location.
April 22, 2021 Source: The China Project
Washington and Beijing inch forward on climate talks, even as Biden pitches green investments to ‘out-compete’ China
The U.S. and China continue to express mutual distrust or even disdain on many issues today, but tackling climate change could be an area of healthy competition, or even policy coordination.
April 6, 2021 Source: The China Project
China is changing course in Africa
Are China’s activities in Africa focused on furthering domestic political objectives rather than on providing what the continent needs most right now, capital and infrastructure?
December 10, 2020 Source: The China Project
China’s Belt and Road lending dries up
New data compiled by researchers at Boston University show that China’s two largest policy banks have dramatically scaled down overseas lending.
December 8, 2020 Source: The China Project
Can China integrate Africa’s new free trade area with the Belt and Road?
Comments from a high-ranking official at China’s National Development and Reform Commission are the clearest signal so far that Beijing is serious about linking its own multinational trading regime with Africa’s.
December 8, 2020 Source: The China Project
China’s relationship with Southeast Asia, explained
Southeast Asia has become a “battleground” for U.S.-China competition — much to the dismay of the people there.
October 21, 2020 Source: The China Project
Q&A: Dr. Fan Dai on China and climate change
Dr. Fan Dai will speak at The China Project’s fourth annual Women’s Conference, which is slated to take place virtually on September 9 and 10. Prior to the event, we recently sat down with her to talk about questions on China’s climate commitments and its role in international climate collaboration.
September 1, 2020 Source: The China Project
China’s railways are buzzing with activity, especially those connecting to Europe
The Chinese economy, or at least the part of it that depends on rail transport and the export of manufactured goods, appears to be rebounding fast. The China State Railway Group reported record numbers for shipments of goods in July, and also set lofty goals for rail track development in China.
August 17, 2020 Source: The China Project
Belt and Road blues in Pakistan, China’s ‘all-weather friend’
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng Sheridan Prasso reports from Gwadar, Pakistan, for Bloomberg (porous paywall): Plans originally called for a seaport, roads, railways, pipelines…
March 10, 2020 Source: The China Project
Tanzania says no to China. Solomon Islands says maybe.
In a rare instance of public pushback against China by a developing country, Tanzania has rejected and revised five demands from China Merchants Holdings International, China’s largest port operator, to build a $10 billion port and economic zone at Bagamoyo. Meanwhile, the attorney general of Solomon Islands condemned a Chinese deal for exclusive development rights for the entire island of Tulagi, but it is unclear if this will lead to a cancellation of those plans.
October 28, 2019 Source: The China Project
The ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ debate: Are China’s loans predatory?
China has poured mountains of cash into infrastructure projects abroad, leading smaller countries to worry about exploitation. But while there are real issues with transparency and corruption in Chinese loans, “debt trap” is not an accurate characterization.
September 18, 2019 Source: The China Project
On the border of China and Myanmar, commerce and consternation
The Chinese border town of Ruili is home to tens of thousands of Burmese, including a sizable Rohingya population that’s frustrated by Beijing’s efforts to…
September 11, 2019 Source: The China Project
Belt and Road interview: Scholar Dragan Pavlićević on BRI and China’s foreign policy
It’s been over five and a half years since Chinese President Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 first revealed the hugely ambitious idea of a “Silk Road Economic…
June 19, 2019 Source: The China Project
Op-ed: How to make China’s Belt and Road green
Pictured: Two BRI projects in Pakistan represent the contradictory environmental effects of Chinese investment: Left, the Sachal Energy Wind Farm; right, the Thar Engro Coal…
May 10, 2019 Source: The China Project
Brouhaha over Italy-China BRI deal may be overrated
The port of Trieste in Italy, one of four in the country that are opening to Chinese investment as a result of the March 23 Memorandum…
May 8, 2019 Source: The China Project
A ‘recalibrated’ Belt and Road?
The second BARF — Belt and Road Forum — begins tomorrow in Beijing, two years after the first such gathering. It seems rather hastily put…
April 24, 2019 Source: The China Project
Venezuela-China, explained: The Belt and Road
This is the second of a four-part series, which will be published on Mondays this month, that spotlights the Venezuela-China relationship. Part One: China’s choice…
January 14, 2019 Source: The China Project
How China’s Belt and Road reportedly funded corruption in Malaysia
The Wall Street Journal has a bombshell story (paywall) about China’s overseas influence, based on recently uncovered meeting minutes of the previous Malaysian government led…
January 8, 2019 Source: The China Project
A death in Kandahar
As we note in our Red Paper, in 2019 we will be closely following the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist insurgent group in the…
December 27, 2018 Source: The China Project