Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Contracts

China Everbright secures asset-light businesses in China and Belt and Road Initiative-targeted countries

China Everbright has been dedicating greater efforts and resources towards balancing asset-light and asset-heavy businesses.

China Focus

Xi’s US$1 trillion 'Project of the Century' gets a reality check

China’s overall activity in BRI countries is down about 40% from its 2018 peak as the world’s second-biggest economy slows.
Walking a tightrope: Singapore and Asean navigate the great power struggle for influence - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Geopolitics

Walking a tightrope: Singapore and Asean navigate the great power struggle for influence

The West’s bid to curtail China’s growing geopolitical influence is creating an additional dimension of complexity to navigate.

Commerce

EU trade retaliation deepens China's trade woes

Brussels accuses Beijing of undercutting EU fibreglass manufacturers by subsidising firms in Egypt.

China Focus

Blue dots or red spots?

(Dec 13): In the sidelines of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership conference in Bangkok, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the US-led Blue Dot Network. He was flanked by enthusiastic supporters, Japan and Australia, who are officiall

China Focus

China's Belt and Road Initiative offers stability

(Nov 18): The only feature that can be relied upon in the US-led trade war with China is that US President Donald Trump cannot be relied upon. Anything tweeted can be untweeted and that makes for a difficult investment ride. Both the Dow Jones Industrial

Global Economy

China to work with Asia to secure world trade, ex-PBOC head says

(Sept 22): China will work with other Asian countries to safeguard international trade rules, as well as the monetary and financial order, according to its former central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan.

China's Belt & Road Initiative

Singapore businesses bank on China's Belt and Road amid slowdown

SINGAPORE (July 30): Nearly one in three multinational corporations are currently involved in projects related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to preliminary findings from a joint survey by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) an

Malaysia

China, Malaysia restart East Coast Rail Link project after year-long suspension

DUNGUN, TERENGGANU (July 25): China and Malaysia resumed construction of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project in peninsula Malaysia on Thursday, after a year-long suspension and following a rare agreement to cut its cost by nearly a third to about US$

SE Asian economies

China no match for Japan in Southeast Asia infrastructure race

(June 24): Japan is still winning the Southeast Asia infrastructure race against China, with pending projects worth almost one and a half times its rival, according to the latest data from Fitch Solutions.
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