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Why China’s Belt and Road Initiative will remain relevant despite growing competition

Chinese investment and construction in the Middle East have grown faster than anywhere else in the world in recent years.

Xi’s US$270 billion Middle East bet limits China support for Iran

President Xi Jinping launched the sprawling Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in Kazakhstan more than a decade ago.

Xi’s Central Asia outreach pays off with a fundraising blitz

China’s appeal lies not only in the scale of its financing, but also in the concreteness of its offer: visible assets, execution and speed.

The West can learn from China’s investment approach

(From right) Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan poses for a photograph with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Jan 10, 2026.

China’s Africa lending nearly halved in 2024, shifts to yuan

Yeo, Singapore's former foreign minister, says the fact that the US is abandoning the institutions it helped to create is a sign not of strength, but of weakness.

Trump’s shifting trade winds won’t change the climate of multipolarity: George Yeo

The Funan Techo Canal in Cambodia, which broke ground in late 2024, is intended to provide access to the Gulf of Thailand from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Inside China’s quiet reboot in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar

China’s Belt and Road Initiative lending spree of the 2010s has paid for shipping ports, railways, roads and more from the deserts of Africa to the tropical South Pacific.

Developing nations face ‘tidal wave’ of China debt: report

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he would sign a “letter of intent” to join the pact when he meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping face-to-face in the coming days.

Colombia moves to join China’s Belt and Road initiative

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesperson Lin Jian said more than 20 Latin American nations are among the more than 150 countries that have participated in the Belt and Road Initiative.

China blames US ‘sabotage’ for Panama’s departure from Belt and Road initiative