Beijing has stepped up its “railway diplomacy” by boosting its infrastructural projects simultaneously on three continents. Speaking to Sputnik, analysts highlighted China’s competitive advantages and shed light on the obstacles the People’s […]
As it shifts away from pacifism, Tokyo hopes to leverage the technological edge of native defense contractors to piggyback new missiles and fighters off US systems By Doug Tsuruoka Japan and […]
Little is afoot in Tokyo to create the sustainable domestic demand-led growth that has eluded the Japanese economy for two-plus decades By William Pesek If we can discern a “Trump Doctrine” […]
China LNG, Teekay LNG JV to finance 6 carriers A joint venture between China LNG shipping and Teekay LNG has reportedly signed a US$1.6 billion deal to finance six LNG carriers, […]
Anna Bruce-LockhartEditor, World Economic Forum You’ve probably heard of the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that once ran between China and the West during the days of the Roman Empire. […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to promote cooperation in China’s cross-border infrastructure development project, in a shift in diplomatic policy to check Beijing’s growing territorial assertiveness in the region, government sources said […]
More than 30 firms have visited the country this year as Beijing expands its new Silk Road web across the Middle East By Robert W Anderson China is turning towards the […]
Written by Andrew KORYBKO The American Vice President said that Trump had “put Pakistan on notice” with his recently unveiled National Security Strategy, employing the exact same language that had earlier been used […]
By M.K. Bhadrakumar On Monday, US National Security Advisor HR McMaster added to tensions in the Middle East when he condemned Turkey and Qatar as prime sponsors of extremist Islamist ideology. […]
The government is floating significant stakes in select state-owned enterprises, including profitable brewers, in a long promised divestment drive By Peter Janssen On December 18, Vietnam kicked off an auction for a […]
Written by Evgeniy Volkov The contradiction aggravation between the states of the Central Asian region on the equitable use of water resources in trans boundary rivers can be used by international and regional […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative heralds a new era with mega infrastructure projects dotting the landscape By Pepe Escobar If you are looking for the latest breakthroughs in trans-Eurasian geoeconomics, you should […]
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a […]
By Anushka Kapahi The ASEAN Master Plan for Connectivity (AMPC) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have major shared goals. Both envisage transport connectivity as a way of bringing countries closer […]
This shadow play is a heady vortex, churning with power projections, spheres of influence, security and commerce By Pepe Escobar The New Silk Roads, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will […]
The passenger jet, which the PLA may well adapt for military use, is likely to draw on expertise from the Russian side, some of it dating back to the Soviet era Efforts […]
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), by lending out money using an alternative currency to the dollar, opens up huge spaces for investment and the strategic transformation of the region FEDERICO […]
Despite high patent and intellectual property filings, no regional company or product has a leading global position By Alan Boyd If necessity is truly the mother of invention, Southeast Asians may need […]
Is the world’s center of gravity shifting to the heart of the Indo-Pacific – a new pivot to Asia? By Pepe Escobar In the context of the New Great Game in […]
Way cleared for the first 253km portion of the railway that will ultimately connect Bangkok to China’s sprawling express rail network By Frank Chen Bangkok has given the green light to Thailand’s first […]
BY JOHN MAULDIN Almost every weekday, some arm of the US government issues some sort of economic statistic. News media and financial analysts review and report it. Then 99.9% of the adult population, […]
India and China are not only trying to reduce their dependence on oil from the Middle East, but also considering renewable energy alternatives; meanwhile, China-Russia-Iran-Pakistan could become a new energy supply axis […]
By Tom Velk and Jade Xiao In this essay, we weave together four apparently different ideas, showing how they are, in fact, closely linked. One: China is not now, nor has it […]
by Andy Wilcoxson, via Strategic Culture More than eleven years after his death, a second trial chamber at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has concluded that former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic […]
