China's 14th National People's Congress, or Two Sessions, opened today with a keynote speech by Premier Li Qiang, who presented the government report for achievements in the past year and plans for this and…
Hussein Askary (Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a paper on February 21 to define in detail the Global Security Initiative (GSI) proposed by President of the People’s Republic…
Hussein Askary (Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)
Victoria Nuland, U.S. State Department Under Secretary for Public Affairs visited Sri Lanka this week, where she capitalized on the financial crisis of the Asian country to…
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…
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…
In this new podcast from the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), Hussein Askary discusses with Ulf Sandmark, Chairman of BRIX, the recently published White Paper "China's Epic Journey from Poverty to Prosperity"…
In this new podcast from the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), we discuss the rapid development of the Health Silk Road which China launched in earnest since the outbreak of the COVID-19…
The reaction in Western media to the declaration by China's President Xi Jinping of the "total victory over extreme poverty" in China in February 2021 was surprisingly predictable. In the best case, it was…
The China State Council released on February 24 the “Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network Planning” indicating their transportation program going forward to 2035. According to Chinanews.com, the total scale of the…
In this new episode of the 2021 podcast series of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), the Chairman of the BRIX, Ulf Sandmark, gives a fascinating and panoramic overview of the development…