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Atomic Wars: Nuclear Energy Competition in Southeast Asia
As governments in the region seek to secure their energy futures, nuclear cooperation is emerging as a new front of strategic ...
For China’s belt and road, the best days are still to come
With rival initiatives lacking substance, Beijing's transcontinental project is likely to expand as the US exits multilateral ...
Cfr.org9d
The U.S.-Southeast Asia Relationship: Responding to China’s Rise
In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened ... economic coercion—through promised or scuttled Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aid projects and investments ...
PBS4d
Belt and road
China’s massive Belt and Road initiative builds global infrastructure ... But they are also building China’s influence, and critics in the U.S. and Asia worry Belt… How President Xi ...
NewsDay Zimbabwe8d
Belt and Road Initiative: China’s ambitious project faces growing international skepticism
The Chinese Communist Party's signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), once heralded as a transformative force in global ...
scmp.com6d
India’s answer to China’s belt and road starts to take shape
“IMEC enhances India’s connectivity, economic opportunities and global standing, while also serving as a multilateral counterbalance to China’s [Belt and Road Initiative], in partnership ...
AsiaNews9d
The 'Silk Road' of foreign students in China
One way to understand the scope of the Belt and Road Initiative is to look at where most students at Chinese universities come from, namely Central Asia, Africa, and South America. For them, the Peopl ...
U.S aid freeze risks handing influence to China in Beijing's backyard
After U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze donations in January to Cambodia's largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington's past ...
Al Jazeera English1mon
Trump’s assault on USAID leaves China soft power opening in Southeast Asia
“China is already capitalising on US disengagement in the first Trump era by deepening its economic, diplomatic and cultural influence in Southeast Asia. Initiatives like the Belt and Road ...