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    • China looks for a way around Pakistan: Why Wakhan Corridor talks with Afghanistan spell trouble for Asim Munir

      The talks come as China grows increasingly frustrated with Pakistan’s failure to protect Chinese citizens, engineers, and investments from repeated militant attacks.

    • China ramps up Belt and Road spending to record levels in 2025

      New research shows Beijing committed more than $200 billion to overseas energy, infrastructure and resource projects last year as it moved to secure supply chains and expand its global economic reach.

    • India only country to not support BRI at SCO summit, maintains opposition to China's ambitious connectivity project

      Notably, India has not endorsed the BRI in any previous SCO meetings and summits.

    • Can IMEC compete with the Belt and Road Initiative?

      Positioned as an alternative to China’s BRI, IMEC has been challenged by a dramatic geopolitical shock soon after its announcement. So far, only India and the UAE have taken initial steps by signing MoUs. The extent to which US President Donald Trump prioritizes the corridor will be crucial in determining its long-term relevance and success

    • Trump Warns of Action Over Panama Canal, Panama Reaffirms Sovereignty

      President Donald Trump reiterated his vow to "take back" the Panama Canal, warning of "powerful" U.S. action over alleged Chinese influence. His remarks followed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with Panama’s President Raúl Mulino, who reaffirmed Panama’s sovereignty while acknowledging U.S. concerns. Mulino announced Panama would exit China’s Belt and Road Initiative and seek U.S. investments. Rubio hinted at U.S. intervention under a 1977 treaty if security threats arise. Meanwhile, Panama is auditing a Chinese-linked port operator. Mulino downplayed military action risks but stressed legal steps would follow the audit’s findings.

    • China's anti-graft body to probe corruption in BRI projects

      Fighting corruption related to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will be among the priorities for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's work report for 2024 (CCDI), the ruling Communist Party of China's (CPC) powerful anti-graft body, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

    • India reiterates opposition to China's multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project BRI

      The BRI has raised global concerns over China’s debt diplomacy of extending huge loans to smaller countries for unsustainable infrastructure projects.

    • Ten years of China’s Belt and Road: what has $1tn achieved?

      The massive infrastructure initiative has granted Beijing additional influence, but critics question whether the cost has been worth it

    • Xi-Putin meeting on October 17: here’s what it says about their current, and future, relationship

      The occasion of Putin’s likely trip to Beijing is the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious Chinese project to expand global trade routes with other nations and extend transport and infrastructure links.

    • China’s Belt and Road shows the high price of Beijing’s money

      The Whoosh bullet train is a signature BRI project reducing travel time from Jakarta to Bandung from 3 hours to about 40 minutes. But construction got mired in delays and profitability remains a big question. Jakarta is increasingly pushing back against Beijing, insisting that China Railway transfer its technology so that it can produce the trains domestically

    • War of the Roads: India-Middle East-Europe corridor conceived to counter China’s BRI

      The ambitious infrastructure project, which would link India with West Asia and Europe, could boost India’s economic integration with the Gulf and other countries in the region and Europe.

    • The Eastern Window: Countering China’s BRI would lift India’s global status

      The US wants to use the newly announced India, Middle East, and Europe Economic Corridor as a means to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The plan’s success would boost India’s global image. This is why India has a key role to play in the project in which 10 developed countries are invested

    • At SCO summit, India reiterates opposition to China's Belt and Road Initiative

    • First India-GCC Senior Officers Meet to consolidate India’s position in the region

    • Why China is re-calibrating its BRI strategy

    • Putin’s admission of Indian, Chinese concerns may help both manage Western pressure

    • China’s BRI is not just a debt trap but a trade trap too

    • The CPEC presents more chinks in China’s BRI ambitions

    • G7 leaders unveil $600 billion plan to rival China's Belt and Road Initiative in developing nations

    • The Eastern Window | How the West is fighting China’s Belt and Road

    • The Eastern Window | Can China save its Belt and Road plan amid rising buyer’s remorse?

    • The dragon's growing footprint in India’s neighbourhood

    • G7 plan to dislodge China as biggest source of infrastructure funding to benefit India

    • Pakistan unveils first metro line under China's Belt and Road Initiative amid mounting debt

    • Japan’s Defence White Paper: New avenues for India-Japan defence cooperation?

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