China Railway Engineering Corporation have just completed a USD 3.4 billion rail project which links Addis Ababa to the strategically located East African port of Djibouti. The route will help landlocked Ethiopia export goods to the wider world and represents… Read More ›
In 2003 at the World Telecom Conference in Barcelona Huawei missed out on a place in the conference and set up an improvised tent on a nearby beach making the unknown company a bit of a joke among the other… Read More ›
China is highly likely to face stronger opposition in East Asia from whoever wins the upcoming US presidential election. Clinton is a longtime China hawk dating back to her time as Secretary of State and even before then when she… Read More ›
It was a major logistical feat: the freight train left Nantong in the far eastern Jiangsu province of China winding through the country onto the windswept Alataw pass at the Kazakh border, then into Uzbekistan and finally across the Friendship… Read More ›
This region contains many of China’s strongest allies and trading partners but also its greatest (potential) foes, there are flashpoints which could spark regional conflict and derail the Chinese economy and its overseas expansion. The Korean peninsula, the Taiwan issue… Read More ›
I have been writing a new regular column for Frontera News covering China’s global rise. Here are some of my latest articles: As Its Economy Slides Into The Abyss, Venezuela Turns Toward China As Its Economy Slides Into The Abyss,… Read More ›
The Yiwu to Madrid Rail Route This new rail route opened a few years ago amid great excitement, transporting Chinese goods from the trading entrepôt of Yiwu in Eastern China to the Spanish capital in the far West of Europe…. Read More ›
In the 12th century under its famed leader Genghis Khan Mongolia conquered much of present day China and continued to rule it for many years. Today Mongolia is rather smaller and is sandwiched between two present day geographical giants –… Read More ›
China has lent over USD 65 billion in recent years to Venezuela mainly via the state owned China Development Bank, making the Latin American country Beijing’s biggest overseas credit exposure. Now the Venezuelan economy is in melt down, a combination… Read More ›
By virtually all measures Chinese overseas investment is booming right now with new projects and deals being signed on a daily basis across the globe. At the same time a quiet yet highly significant shift is underway in the pattern… Read More ›
