The Silk Road Economic Belt—the overland component of Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—promises to bind China to Central Asia and beyond through a new infrastructural network. Connecting through China’s far western Xinjiang...
Plans for deep-sea platform—used for mineral hunting and likely military purposes—have been accelerated....
"The romanticised relationship surrounding China's investment in Africa has passed," said Alex Vines. "The main pressure on governments in Africa is to provide jobs. Having the Chinese take those jobs doesn't help."
LOCAL legend has it that the beauty of the grasslands in Xilin Gol, a prefecture in eastern Inner Mongolia, so captivated the 13th-century warrior Genghis Khan that he planned to settle down there once his battles were over. He might be less...
