"belt-and-road-initiative"

Nepal faces a widening trade deficit with China, driven by heavy imports and weak exports. World Bank data shows BRI projects favour Chinese firms, deepening structural imbalances and exposing Nepal’s economic vulnerabilities

Will China’s closeness with central Asian countries, particularly Afghanistan, to check Uyghur ‘violence’ help?

Eight others injured in incident; thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, most of them involved in Beijing's multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative

G7’s commitment to promote India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is a major diplomatic victory

China will keep pushing the envelope but India has demonstrated both the will and resources to push back

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has a total foreign debt of USD 46.9 billion, 52 per cent of which is owed to China, its largest lender

By Amitava Mukherjee Hasina Wazed, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, is scheduled to come to India at a time when her country is exercising a ‘politics of balance’ in order to steer clear of an impression that Dhaka is willingly embracing a Chinese dragnet. Her country is running short of money and in order to […]

Biden administration officials see the moment as an opportunity to take concrete action to speak out against China's reliance on forced labour as an “affront to human dignity."

With China all set to take sovereign control of Colombo Port City, a wary India must realign its South Asia strategy

With a wobbly population structure, will the Dragon be able to face a hostile international scenario?

An internationally isolated Myanmar can put a spoke in the central idea of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – connectivity