by Marcia Merry Baker and William C. Jones*
This year’s Summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), representing around 25% of the GDP of the world with over…
Hussein Askary, Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
The world held its breath on August 2nd and 3rd in anticipation of the reaction by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the visit to Taiwan by…
By: Shexiu Huang * and Hussein Askary**
The cooperation between China and Africa in the education and skilled labor capacity building fields intersect two important aspects of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). One is…
Hussein Askary, The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden - BRIX
The danger emanating from think tanks and intelligence agencies providing wishful thinking and propaganda rather than real and objective intelligence is that policy makers,…
Hussein Askary, Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
June 10, 2022
As in the the case of Pakistan, which we reviewed last month, Sri Lanka’s debt crisis and financial problems have been augmented…
Hussein Askary, The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden.
A new wave of the thoroughly debunked fake narrative of “China debt-trap” is trying to make a fresh return in Western media, taking advantage of the…
Hussein Askary (The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)
On April 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the Director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), chaired the 11th meeting…
Hussein Askary
The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on the 21st of April, China’s President Xi Jinping proposed a new Global Security Initiative, not…
How does a village in the proverbial “middle of nowhere” leapfrog from the conditions close to the Middle Ages into the 21st century and the center of world connectivity in the matter of 4…
Hussein Askary (Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)
The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), through discussions with well-informed sources in Pakistan, China, and Europe reached certain conclusions regarding the fate of…