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    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      Chinese state-owned company accused of endangering rare orang-utans

      SDIC has marketed its environmental credentials but has invested in controversial hydropower plant

      Environmental activists wearing orang-utan masks unfurled banners and posters in Jakarta in 2019
    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      ‘Speed dating’ with Xi: China shows off its new friends at Winter Olympics

      Beijing touts ‘solidarity’ with partners such as Moscow in face of US-led diplomatic boycott

      A news report showing Xi Jinping at  the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics
    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      China pours money into Iraq as US retreats from Middle East

      Beijing strengthens regional ties despite overall fall in Belt and Road investment

      An Iraqi flag in front of a flaring of excess gas at a pipeline at the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq
    • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
      Pakistan seeks to calm protesters at Chinese Belt and Road port project

      Poor fishermen complain they are seeing no benefits from multimillion-dollar investment

      Trucks bearing Chinese flags near the Gwadar port
    • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      China-Pakistan Belt and Road Initiative hits buffers

      Disagreements, terrorism and Covid continue to stymie CPEC projects

      Illustration showing China’s flag with an arrow pointing left and Pakistan’s flag with an arrow pointing straight
    • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
      Martin Sandbu
      Clear ambition is required if Europe is to rival China’s Belt and Road

      The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ infrastructure plan risks faltering without proper funding and explicit aims

      Xi Jinping, China’s president, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s prime minister, on a 2019 visit to the container terminal at Piraeus port in Athens, a successful example of Belt and Road Initiative collaboration
    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      Laos to open Chinese-built railway amid fears of Beijing’s influence

      Project in one of Asia’s poorest countries stokes concerns over financial and political risks

      A section of the China-Laos railway under construction near Luang Prabang
    • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      What’s next for Huawei?

      Hong Kong could see its worst quarter for new listings since the early days of the pandemic

    • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
      ‘Hidden debt’ on China’s Belt and Road tops $385bn, says new study

      More than 40 countries have debt exposure to Beijing greater than 10% of their GDP

      A section of the China-Laos railway under construction near Luang Prabang, Laos in 2018
    • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
      Belt and Road dam in Cambodia branded a ‘disaster’ for local communities

      Report says Chinese-funded projects threaten a food crisis in the Mekong river delta

      The Lower Sesan 2 dam
    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      Pakistan
      China calls on Pakistan to punish perpetrators of ‘terrorist attack’ on bus

      Nine Chinese nationals killed in blast that Islamabad says was an accident

      Rescue workers and onlookers gather round the wrecked bus near Pakistan’s Dasu dam after the vehicle plunged into a ravine following an explosion
    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      Trade Secrets
      How the US and EU can compete with China’s Belt and Road Premium content

      Beijing reins back its infrastructure ambitions but Washington and Brussels fail to plug the gap

      Chinese workers at a train station under construction in Kenya
    • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US withdraws

      Beijing is ready to co-operate with Taliban to prevent chaos across its border, diplomats say

      China Afghanistan montage
    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Gu Bin
      China’s Belt and Road Initiative should stop financing new coal power

      Ending the fuel’s use would help meet climate commitments and foster co-operation with western nations

      Banning coal would be consistent with China’s pledge of reaching a carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060
    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Europe Express
      EU to develop investment initiative to counter Chinese influence Premium content

      Draft statement seeks a “geostrategic approach” to investments abroad

      A bridge under construction for a highway to connect Montenegro and Serbia
    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The graveyard of empires calls to China

      Military presence may accompany the extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan

      A boy sells dried fruit on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan
    • Sunday, 13 June, 2021
      G7
      G7 set to agree ‘green belt and road’ plan to counter China’s influence

      Environment groups criticise lack of detail on how proposals will be financed

      An Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Falmouth, Cornwall
    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      Australian politics
      Australia reviews Chinese ownership of Darwin port over security risks

      Decision announced a week after Canberra rips up two Belt and Road deals in Victoria

      Darwin port was leased to a Shandong-based company for 99 years
    • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
      West and allies relaunch push for own version of China’s Belt and Road

      EU and US seek to put infrastructure initiative on G7 agenda to counter Beijing’s global reach

    • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Creating alternatives to China’s Belt and Road

      EU-India partnership may become part of a kaleidoscope of schemes

      Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka. Concerns among western democracies and some BRI partner countries have intensified as China has taken an increasingly authoritarian path
    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
      Australian politics
      China berates Australia for cancelling Victoria BRI projects

      Beijing says Canberra’s decision proves it has no intention of repairing frayed relations

    • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
      European Union
      EU and India plan global infrastructure deal

      Move seen as response to China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative

      Work on a railway bridge in Laos
    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      China’s high stakes engagement with Iran

      A strategic partnership deal will raise alarm in Washington

      Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, pictured right, and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi after signing an agreement in Tehran
    • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
      China turns its back on Bangladesh BRI coal projects

      Beijing’s decision a rare signal of reluctance to fund polluting projects in Belt and Road Initiative

    • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
      China focuses on Africa energy as Belt and Road lending dries up

      Chinese development banks have been supporting local projects during the coronavirus pandemic

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