On March 24, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a surprise visit to Kabul, where he met with Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar. A statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry reports that…
Before the launching of the Russian military operation in Ukraine on February 24, and even in the following two weeks, freight transport on the China-EU Express railways was reaching overcapacity and congestions were developing…
In this new webcast / podcast from the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Professor Chen Xiangming, Director of Urban Studies Program and Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College…
How compatible is Build Back Better World with the Belt and Road Initiative?
Hussein Askary
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Feb. 28, in a video message commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shanghai Communiqué,…
In this interview with Professor Li Xing, Professor of Development and International Relations at Aalborg University in Denmark, host Hussein Askary discusses the impact of the current dramatic developments in Ukraine on the Belt…
The aesthetically and technically amazing opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 last week was a beautiful message of friendship and co-existence among nations of different political, cultural, and social structures united around the…
Support for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Global Development Initiative has been growing among dozens of ambassadors at the United Nations, who have formed the Friends of the Global Development Initiative. Speaking of the development…
The State Council of the Chinese Government released on January 19 the plan for rail development in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2022-2025). According to Chinese official media reports, in that period the Chinese government…
While China admits that there is a climate change caused by emissions by human society, its dealing with the effects of that climate change and how to move forward without jeopardizing the livelihood of…
Hussein Askary (The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian announced on January 1, 2022 that “continuing the tradition of Chinese foreign ministers starting every new year with a visit…