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Potholes Emerging In China’s New Silk Road
By Salman Rafi Sheikh, Asia Sentinel The acknowledgement by Xu Shanda, a retired Chinese deputy director of the State Administration of Taxation, last week regarding potential losses of Silk Road projects has drawn widespread attention as it challenges the prevailing myth of an indomitable and inevitable system in which ultimately all roads will lead to Beijing. The … Continue reading
China To Invest Nearly $1 Trillion In 2016 On Infrastructure, High-Tech Research And Development
Beijing is set to invest over 6 trillion yuan ($926.6 billion) this year in the country’s high-tech research and development, as well as infrastructure development, including railway, fixed assets, water conservancy projects, local media reported on Thursday. The aim is to help develop sectors such as transportation, environment protection, urban planning, and tourism. Fixed asset investment … Continue reading
The New Silk Roads And The Rise Of The ‘Chinese Dream’
By Pepe Escobar Beijing is advancing a Chinese-led globalization that will challenge U.S. hegemony both regionally and globally. Earlier last week, the first Chinese commercial train, with 32 containers, arrived in Tehran after a less than 14-day journey from the massive warehouse of Yiwu in Zhejiang, eastern China, crossing Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This is a 10,400 … Continue reading
East Africa: The Expense Of The SGR And Related Implications
By Anzetse Were It is now well known that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is being developed under the leadership of the Kenyan government and will connect Mombasa to Malaba (with a branch line to Kisumu) onward to Kampala, Kigali (with a branch line to Kasese) and Juba (with a branch line to Pakwach). What … Continue reading
Russia May Help Launch A Trade Corridor With South And North Korea This Week
By Andrew Korybko, Sputnik News This week’s East Russia Economic Forum in Vladivostok has the chance to bring the two Korea’s closer together with Russia. North and South Korea just barely walked back from the brink of war this week, with both deciding instead to enact concessions to the other and set dates for future talks. Although they have drastically different ideologies … Continue reading
New Silk Road: China And The Economic Integration Of Europe And Asia
By Chas Freeman China’s “The Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road,” or officially called the “one belt, one road” project aims to bring into being a new economic order on the Eurasian landmass. Everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific is to be connected through hyper-efficient infrastructure and new institutional linkages. … Continue reading
The Eurasian Big Bang: How China And Russia Are Running Circles Around Washington – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar, originally posted July 23, 2015 on TomDispatch Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning … Continue reading
China Plans Major Solar Power Plant In Kenya Linked To A $5 Billion Investment Project
“China is set to construct a solar power plant in Kenya as part of an ongoing investment plan between the two countries (…) The 50-megawatt plant, which is planned to be built in the city of Garissa, will be financed by the Export-Import Bank of China,” China’s ambassador to Kenya,” Liu Xianfa, said according to International Business … Continue reading
A Look At South America’s Future Transcontinental Railway
By Martin De Angelis A recently signed tri-lateral agreement between China, Peru and Brazil set hopes for a bi-oceanic railway corridor. If feasible, the project would significantly reduce trade costs and shipping times to China. On May 23rd, China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang met with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala to sign the implementation of feasibility studies on a bi-oceanic … Continue reading
Russia Gets Very Serious On De-Dollarizing
By F. William Engdahl Russia is about to take another major step towards liberating the Ruble from the Dollar System. Its Finance Ministry just revealed it is considering issuing Russian state debt in Chinese Yuan. That would be an elegant way to decouple from the dependence and blackmail pressures from the US Treasury financial terrorism operations … Continue reading
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