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China's Belt and Road plans losing momentum -study

David Stanway, Reuters
Posted at Sep 29 05:39 PM

China's vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount. Read more »

Asia has wary welcome for G7's answer to China's Belt and Road

Bernadette Christina and Aradhana Aravindan, Reuters
Posted at Jun 17 05:25 PM

JAKARTA/SINGAPORE - A plan by the Group of Seven nations to counter Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative has been welcomed by countries in China's immediate orbit of influence but will need to overcome doubts about Western commitment to emerging market projects. Read more »

Anything you can do: G7 rivals China with grand infrastructure plan

Steve Holland and Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters
Posted at Jun 13 03:12 PM

The Group of Seven richest democracies sought on Saturday to counter China's growing influence by offering developing nations an infrastructure plan that could rival President Xi Jinping's multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative. Read more »

Samoa's disputed leader promises Chinese-backed port at a third of the cost

Jonathan Barrett, Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 08:01 AM

SYDNEY - Samoa's disputed leader is promising to build a port with Chinese help for $100 million, about a third of the cost proposed earlier, said sources with knowledge of the situation, as he bids to stay in power despite losing a parliamentary majority in a tight election. Read more »

China’s belt and road plan: Can the US find an alternative route?

Jevans Nyabiage, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 02 09:17 AM

US President Joe Biden is keen for democracies to create a rival infrastructure development initiative, but observers say he’ll struggle to pull it off. Previous efforts by Washington and its allies have been ‘sporadic and disaggregated in terms of their strategic coherence’, academic says. Read more »

China’s Belt and Road projects face climate change challenges

Jacob Fromer, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 24 01:15 PM

Beijing has countless projects as part of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) global infrastructure plan, but experts have warned of their vulnerability to the costly consequences of climate change, including migration pressures, political unrest and rising sea levels.   Read more »

Australia cancels state deals on China's Belt and Road over 'national interest'

Kirsty Needham, Reuters
Posted at Apr 22 09:30 AM

SYDNEY - Australia said a decision to cancel two deals between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative was about ensuring consistency in foreign relations and was not aimed at any country. Read more »

China rejects US top diplomat's challenge to its ‘near-Arctic nation’ claim

William Langley, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 07 03:43 AM

US secretary of state on Monday tweeted that Beijing’s declaration was a "communist fiction". Read more »

China’s Belt and Road Initiative faces fresh challenge from Australian laws on investment deals

Keegan Elmer in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Dec 10 12:37 PM

The legislation passed by Canberra could derail projects linked to China’s international connectivity scheme. China’s foreign ministry says it hopes Australia will behave in an ‘objective and rational manner’. Read more »

U.S., Taiwan to team up on infrastructure in pushback against China

Reuters
Posted at Sep 30 10:01 PM

TAIPEI - The United States and Taiwan will work together on infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region and Latin America, officials said on Wednesday, in an implicit pushback for China's own massive regional investment plans.   Read more »

Chinese projects in PH to continue, envoy says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 09:25 PM

MANILA - All China-led projects in the Philippines will continue as planned, its envoy to Manila said Tuesday, despite a US sanction on Chinese firms' involvement in the militarization of the disputed South China Sea. Read more »

Virus slows China's major projects in Asia

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 28 03:07 PM

The outbreak that emerged in China in late December and spread to dozens of countries has cut off the Chinese labor supplies and equipment imports needed to keep major infrastructure projects running.   Read more »

China sees only short-term COVID-19 impact on Southeast Asia economies

Reuters
Posted at Feb 21 07:31 PM

Bank Indonesia on Thursday joined Thailand's and the Philippines' central banks in cutting interest rates to ward off the impact of the virus outbreak on their economies. Read more »

Coronavirus slows China's Belt and Road push

Keith Zhai and Matthew Tostevin, Reuters
Posted at Feb 18 05:28 PM

Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease have idled much of the world's second-largest economy and choked key elements of Xi's signature Belt and Road Initiative. Read more »

China’s Xi to tie up Belt and Road deals in ‘historic’ Myanmar visit

Thu Thu Aung and Sam Aung Moon, Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 08:07 PM

China's President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. Read more »

Sri Lanka president likely to reboot China ties: experts

Simon Sturdee, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 19 02:43 PM

With the Rajapaksas clan now back, Beijing will likely be too, experts say.   Read more »

Locsin: West PH Sea gas exploration has to be with China 'unless other people step up'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 04 01:28 PM

The Philippines has to explore with China gas and oil reserves believed to be sitting deep beneath West Philippine Sea "unless other people step up", Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said Wednesday.  Read more »

Silk Road sweeteners: China woos Myanmar's NLD with junkets

Shoon Naing and Simon Lewis, Reuters
Posted at Aug 07 08:32 AM

Since taking power three years ago, the National League for Democracy led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has found an unlikely ally – the Chinese Communist Party. Read more »

PH, Chinese officials hold forum on infrastructure, construction cooperation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 04:13 AM

Special economic zones, infrastructure, and overall trade and investments: these are just some of the areas of cooperation Philippine and Chinese officials identified at the Belt and Road Initiative Forum on people-to-people exchange and economic cooperation held in Manila. Read more »

PH, Chinese officials hold forum on infrastructure, construction cooperation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 05:57 PM

Philippine and Chinese officials talk infrastructure and construction cooperation at the Belt and Road China-Philippines forum. Read more »