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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      News in-depthBangladesh
      Bangladesh’s finance minister warns on Belt and Road loans from China

      Beijing’s poor lending decisions risk pushing developing nations into debt distress, says Kamal

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      News in-depthKenya
      China’s role at the heart of Kenya’s election campaign

      Deputy president threatens deportations of Chinese nationals while veteran rival promises renegotiation of Beijing loans

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      China’s emerging Belt and Road debt crisis

      The architecture of global development finance needs an overhaul

    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      China’s Belt and Road spending in Russia drops to zero

      Beijing shifts investment focus to Saudi Arabia but continues to buy Russian oil and gas

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      China reckons with its first overseas debt crisis

      The Belt and Road Initiative has seen a surge in loans going bad, prompting Beijing to issue countries with emergency credit

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      Chinese state-owned company accused of endangering rare orang-utans

      SDIC has marketed its environmental credentials but has invested in controversial hydropower plant

    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      ‘Speed dating’ with Xi: China shows off its new friends at Winter Olympics

      Beijing touts ‘solidarity’ with partners such as Moscow in face of US-led diplomatic boycott

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      China pours money into Iraq as US retreats from Middle East

      Beijing strengthens regional ties despite overall fall in Belt and Road investment

    • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
      Pakistan seeks to calm protesters at Chinese Belt and Road port project

      Poor fishermen complain they are seeing no benefits from multimillion-dollar investment

    • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      China-Pakistan Belt and Road Initiative hits buffers

      Disagreements, terrorism and Covid continue to stymie CPEC projects

    • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
      Martin Sandbu
      Clear ambition is required if Europe is to rival China’s Belt and Road

      The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ infrastructure plan risks faltering without proper funding and explicit aims

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      Laos to open Chinese-built railway amid fears of Beijing’s influence

      Project in one of Asia’s poorest countries stokes concerns over financial and political risks

    • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      What’s next for Huawei?

      Hong Kong could see its worst quarter for new listings since the early days of the pandemic

    • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
      ‘Hidden debt’ on China’s Belt and Road tops $385bn, says new study

      More than 40 countries have debt exposure to Beijing greater than 10% of their GDP

    • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
      Belt and Road dam in Cambodia branded a ‘disaster’ for local communities

      Report says Chinese-funded projects threaten a food crisis in the Mekong river delta

    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      Pakistan
      China calls on Pakistan to punish perpetrators of ‘terrorist attack’ on bus

      Nine Chinese nationals killed in blast that Islamabad says was an accident

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      Trade Secrets
      How the US and EU can compete with China’s Belt and Road Premium content

      Beijing reins back its infrastructure ambitions but Washington and Brussels fail to plug the gap

    • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US withdraws

      Beijing is ready to co-operate with Taliban to prevent chaos across its border, diplomats say

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Gu Bin
      China’s Belt and Road Initiative should stop financing new coal power

      Ending the fuel’s use would help meet climate commitments and foster co-operation with western nations

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Europe Express
      EU to develop investment initiative to counter Chinese influence Premium content

      Draft statement seeks a “geostrategic approach” to investments abroad

    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The graveyard of empires calls to China

      Military presence may accompany the extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan

    • Sunday, 13 June, 2021
      G7
      G7 set to agree ‘green belt and road’ plan to counter China’s influence

      Environment groups criticise lack of detail on how proposals will be financed

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      Australian politics
      Australia reviews Chinese ownership of Darwin port over security risks

      Decision announced a week after Canberra rips up two Belt and Road deals in Victoria

    • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
      West and allies relaunch push for own version of China’s Belt and Road

      EU and US seek to put infrastructure initiative on G7 agenda to counter Beijing’s global reach

    • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Creating alternatives to China’s Belt and Road

      EU-India partnership may become part of a kaleidoscope of schemes

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