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Read More »Thailand delays hit China’s Southeast Asian high-speed railway ambitions
Every day, Laos’ first high speed train linking its capital Vientiane to Boten, a city on the Chinese border, leaves the station and brings goods and people up and down along its 414km route.The daily routine started in December following the completion of the rail link that took five years …
Read More »Sri Lanka asks China to restructure debt repayments | The Express Tribune
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked China to help restructure debt repayments as part of efforts to help the South Asian country weather a worsening financial crisis, his office said in a statement on Sunday. Rajapaksa made the request during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in …
Read More »‘BRI has potential to bring prosperity for Afghanistan’ | The Express Tribune
Speakers have said that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has the potential to help bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan with its economic and development approach. They said that China and the countries on BRI will engage Afghanistan through regional trade linkages, development, and communications networks, creating opportunities for …
Read More »China will be Afghanistan’s main partner, say Taliban | The Express Tribune
ROME: China will be the Taliban’s “main partner” and will help rebuild Afghanistan, said group’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid. “China will be our main partner and represents a great opportunity for us because it is ready to invest in our country and support reconstruction efforts,” Mujahid said in an interview published …
Read More »China will be ‘our main partner’, say Taliban | The Express Tribune
ROME: China will be the Taliban’s “main partner” and help rebuild Afghanistan, according to a spokesperson for the group. “China will be our main partner and represents a great opportunity for us because it is ready to invest in our country and support reconstruction efforts,” Zabihullah Mujahid said in an …
Read More »Pakistan-US relations are entering an unprecedented era | The Express Tribune
For the first time in its history, Pakistan is behaving independently of American interests Prime Minister Imran Khan’s (PMIK) interview with the New York Times revealed that Pakistani-American relations are entering an unprecedented era, though it doesn’t necessarily have to be a negative one provided that the US has the …
Read More »Why Tajikistan is emerging as China’s gateway to Afghanistan | The Express Tribune
It’s fitting that China and Pakistan joined forces in 2016 to establish the QCCM with Tajikistan and Afghanistan China’s overhauling of Tajikistan’s highway network in its sparsely populated, mountainous, and geographically enormous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) speaks to Beijing’s desire to increasingly rely on that neighbouring country for facilitating its …
Read More »The BRI-backed Afghan-Pak rapprochement is reshaping the region | The Express Tribune
Afghanistan is seemingly no longer all that interested in Iran’s Indian-controlled port of Chabahar The geopolitics of the Eurasian Heartland are gradually being reshaped by the BRI-backed Afghan-Pakistani rapprochement. Ties between these neighbouring nations have always been complicated for historical reasons, but Kabul appears ready to behave more pragmatically as …
Read More »Pakistan-Iraq ties represent promising South-South cooperation | The Express Tribune
Iraq is so attractive to Pakistan because it’s positioned in the central part of the Levant The trend of South-South cooperation between the world’s developing (“Global South”) nations is among the most important of the 21st century, driven to a large degree by the enormous strides that China’s Belt and Road …
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