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Australian experts weigh in on Belt and Road Initiative’s role

July 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

Source: China Daily, 2022-07-07. Daryl Guppy, President of the Australia China Business Council’s Northern Territory sub-council said that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major contributor to economic growth in areas that have been ignored by other development programs. Mr Guppy said he believes the BRI has four dimensions of benefit to boost growth in the post-pandemic era: hard, trade, soft and capital infrastructure. BRI’s hard infrastructure includes […]

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Chinese-constructed mega railway in Malaysia 30% completed

July 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a key venture of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with Malaysia. The project is primarily funded by a loan from China’s state-owned Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. Given Malaysia’s close economic relationship with China, which is its largest trade partner, the country has appeared as a BRI focal point. The rail line is scheduled to commence operation by 2027. BRI Monitor The construction of the […]

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Egypt’s first electrified light rail system starts trial runs

July 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Egypt’s first electrified light rail transit (LRT) system jointly built by Chinese and Egyptian companies started its trial run on July 3, 2022. The LRT project is the fruit of a $1.24 billion contract signed in August 2017 between Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels and the consortium of China Railway Engineering Corporation and AVIC International Holding Corporation. The first phase of the LRT contains 22 trains and will serve 360,000 […]

Laos-Vietnam Railway Project considered

July 5, 2022 CEN_com 0

A Laos–Vietnam Railway Project (LVRP) is being considered, which would link the railways of the two socialist nations with rail system of socialist China. The LVRO would extend Laos’s recently completed railway to Kunming, China some 330km to the border trading city of Thakhek, and then a further 140km to the Vietnamese port of Vung Ang. The government of Laos has commissioned a feasibility study into the construction of an […]

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China proposes 6 programs with Mekong-basin countries

July 5, 2022 CEN_com 0

China on Monday 4 July 2022 proposed six programs which will benefit the Lancang-Mekong countries aside from China, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, including cooperation plans in agriculture, water resources, digital economy, aerospace, education, and public health, as Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (LMC) in Bagan, Myanmar. The meeting came after the US’ high-profile launch of the Indo-Pacific […]

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs on COVID-19: I’m pretty convinced it came out of US lab biotechnology

July 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

World-renowned economist and author Professor Jeffrey Sachs has said that he was “pretty convinced” Covid-19 did not come from nature but rather was an accidental release “out of US lab biotechnology.” Professor Sach’s view lends further support for the need for an independent international invesigation into US bio labs run by the US military in numerous nations surrounding China and Russia. [** See previous China Environment Net articles linked below]. […]

China’s Belt & Road Initiative, the BRICS New Development Bank, and the failure of the G7 to deliver

July 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗭𝗮𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Two of the BRICS member states were invited to the G7 summit as guests. What does in mean for our interests? Does it mean that the West is beginning to acknowledge BRICS, or was it done to counteract the famous Chinese strategy, Belt and Road? 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗭𝗮𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮: It is a complex question. I think it is necessary to break down […]

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July 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

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China at the centre of the world’s politics

July 3, 2022 CEN_com 0

The following is reproduced from Think China, 29 Jun 2022. The views expressed are those of the author. Former Singaporean journalist Goh Choon Kang observes that whether it is the discussions at the recently concluded Shangri-La Dialogue or the larger machinations of geopolitics, it cannot be denied that having China in the picture changes many things, and perhaps even provides countries with more strategic options. After a two-year hiatus due […]

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South-South cooperation: China helps 38 developing countries vulnerable to climate change to face challenges of green transition

July 3, 2022 CEN_com 0

China takes concrete action to tackle global warming through cooperation. The past two months have seen China taking a series of concrete actions to enhance South-South climate cooperation, namely projects among developing nations. Small island states, which are particularly vulnerable to global warming, are among China’s major concerns. China has reached 43 agreements with 38 countries on South-South climate cooperation, according to a recent article by the ministry’s Party chief […]