China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 to improve connectivity and cooperation on a transcontinental scale. Quantifying the impacts of the initiative is a major challenge, which is ...

The narrative of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as spanning over 65 countries and gathering 62 percent of the world population, 31 percent of its GDP, and 40 percent of global land area should ...

Train passing through the Chuy region in Kyrgyzstan China’s Belt and Road infrastructure development initiative will have its winners and losers. But for now, Beijing is trying to bolster ...

Infographics: China's Belt And Road Investment Map By Katharina Buchholz Published 06/16/21 AT 12:54 AM EDT Chinese BRI investments by world region in 2020 (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista/IBT ...

Last November the Georgian government held its second biennial Tbilisi Belt and Road Forum, in which delegations from Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia presented historical trade route maps ...

China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI), a network of enhanced overland and maritime trade routes better linking China with Asia, Europe and Africa began in 2013 with much fanfare and hope ...

China's global infrastructure initiative has always been controversial. As Xi Jinping's signature project turns 10, leaders and representatives of 130 countries are in Beijing to mark the anniversary.

Summary As huge investments are being poured into the Belt & Road Initiative across Asia and Europe, the introduction of catastrophe bonds can take the risk off government balance sheets. Natural ...

JAKARTA — Citizens of countries participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, strongly prefer clean energy over the coal projects that have become Beijing’s calling card, a new ...

BEIJING, 19th July 2025 (WAM) -- China has seen robust trade and investment with countries participating in Belt and Road cooperation over the past years, Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang told ...

China’s Belt and Road Plan Is Down, Not Out The country could be reshaping its overseas infrastructure push after pulling back during the pandemic By Megha Mandavia Follow Jan. 9, 2023 10:04 am ET ...

Countries along Beijing’s flagship Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-century Maritime Silk Road--better known as “One Belt, One Road”--will be among the first in line to plug into China’s ...