Chinese investment in Belt & Road (B&R) projects in Sri Lanka has generated some controversy, but stakeholders focused on the long-term potential for Sri Lanka see growing opportunities for business in the country. As well as investments in transport infrastructure and real estate, China’s long-...
"The initiative has boosted China's film industry, and will drive its next boom," said Zhang Yiwu, professor with the Peking University. Controversy over "The Great Wall", a recent blockbuster co-produced by China and the United States, which starred Matt Damon, revealed that the Chinese fil...
This chapter seeks to position two countries straddling mainland and maritime Southeast Asia within China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), namely Indonesia and Malaysia. China's BRI is not seen as threatening per se, this is related with our theme of the book. While in Indonesia the Bandung...
The euphoria about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Indonesia and elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia (SEA) has been felt since 2017, particularly following the country’s participation in the BRI Summit in Beijing that year, where Indonesia (along with other SAARC and ASEAN member stat...
As China aims to strengthen development and trade ties with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partners, we take closer look at the BRI and illustrate how the country hopes to gain influence on the world stage.
DM recently stated in an interview that the (BRI) that Italy signed up for under its previous government had done little to help the country's exports.
With the implementation of Belt and Road Initiative strategy and the approval of the World Cultural Heritage application of “Silk Road” in 2022, the tourist attractions in Xinjiang along the Silk Road are once again warming up. Xinjiang accounts for six among the 33 representative sites ...
Nine years ago it was plucked out of obscurity -- a backwater in Pakistan's restive Balochistan region -- and presented as China's commercial window onto the Indian Ocean, a hub for regional integration under the Belt and Road Initiative, which was to harness the juggernaut of the Chinese ...