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Potholes Emerging In China’s New Silk Road
By Salman Rafi Sheikh, Asia Sentinel The acknowledgement by Xu Shanda, a retired Chinese deputy director of the State Administration of Taxation, last week regarding potential losses of Silk Road projects has drawn widespread attention as it challenges the prevailing myth of an indomitable and inevitable system in which ultimately all roads will lead to Beijing. The … Continue reading
The New Silk Roads And The Rise Of The ‘Chinese Dream’
By Pepe Escobar Beijing is advancing a Chinese-led globalization that will challenge U.S. hegemony both regionally and globally. Earlier last week, the first Chinese commercial train, with 32 containers, arrived in Tehran after a less than 14-day journey from the massive warehouse of Yiwu in Zhejiang, eastern China, crossing Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This is a 10,400 … Continue reading
The Eurasian Big Bang: How China And Russia Are Running Circles Around Washington – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar, originally posted July 23, 2015 on TomDispatch Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning … Continue reading
Chinese Investment In Russia Could More Than Double In 5 Years
China could more than double its investment into the Russian economy to $10 billion within 5 years if conditions are favorable, according to the Deputy Secretary-General of the China Overseas Development Association He Zhenwei, Russia’s TASS News Agency reports. “Chinese investments abroad currently amount to $140 billion, with about $4 billion investment into Russia. This can be … Continue reading
Russia, China Sign Raft Of Deals And Will Integrate The Eurasian Economic Union, New Silk Road
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday signed a decree for cooperation in tying the development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with the New Silk Road economic project. Russia and China also signed a number of energy, trade, and finance deals on Friday, which are aimed at strengthening economic ties between the two nations. … Continue reading
China’s Next Big Opportunity In Supply-Chain Logistics: Container Shipping By Rail
The transportation of containers by rail could grow substantially in China, particularly if the nation continues to adopt operating practices and regulatory reforms that have boosted the development of the North American rail network, according to a new research paper from The World Bank. Measures that include the ability of rail operators to tailor service offerings that … Continue reading
China And Russia To Boost Bilateral Economic Cooperation In Energy, Transport, Far East Development
Russia and China will boost bilateral economic cooperation in the fields of energy, transportation, and development of the Far East, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday, TASS news agency reports. The two nations are aiming to increase bilateral trade to $100 billion in 2015, in addition to signing agreements on the Silk Road … Continue reading
Moscow To Beijing In 33 Hours: New Details Of The High-Speed Rail Link Mega Project
“Possible route could see 400km/hour bullet train pass through heart of Siberia and Altai region with stops in major cities,” The Siberian Times reports. China has been working intensively on a $242 billion (1.5 trillion yuan) high-speed rail link between Beijing and Moscow. The aim is to cut the journey time from five to ‘two days’. The railway … Continue reading
Growing The Russia-China New Relationship
By F. William Engdahl While the Obama Administration is preoccupied with keeping an increasingly unhappy EU firm on further economic sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Putin is busy outflanking an increasingly desperate Washington. Rather than fixate on the deliberate US and NATO provocations in Ukraine, Russia is deepening its strategic ties with the other Great Eurasian … Continue reading
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