BRI

China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller Long-time China resident, writer and journalist Tom Miller spent three years travelling around Asia along the various Belt and Road corridors to report from the front line on the effects, costs and consequences of China’s Belt and Road initiative. In this excellent book, he manages to bring together China’s great ambitions for economic expansion and, as the …

Tom Miller spent three years travelling around Asia researching his book China’s Asian Dream. Here he explains the far-reaching effects of China’s ambitious global goals To what extent is the Belt and Road initiative already benefiting the economy of China? It is still very early days, as the initiative was only announced in late 2013 and its success can only be judged in 10 or 20 years’ time. Having said …

With China’s increasing prominence on the global stage, Kerry Brown thinks it’s time for a new cross-cultural dialogue One of the frustrations of dealing with China in the decade after it entered the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 was the ways in which, almost daily, the People’s Republic was clearly an emerging economic superpower but one that continued to act diplomatically like it belonged to the middle ranks. The …

China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) aims to further the country’s trade links and influence with over 60 nations, mainly in Asia and Europe. The initiative offers both opportunity and risk for China and its partners. The Chinese government expects to invest trillions of dollars in large-scale infrastructure projects such as railways, container ports and power stations in OBOR (One Belt, One Road) countries. These will have a significant environmental …