China has always placed ASEAN squarely on the first page of its foreign cooperation agenda, regarding ASEAN as a priority in its foreign policy and a key region for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
“China got Sri Lanka to cough up a port,” said the New York Times in a widely quoted article published on June 25, 2018.The article claimed, “Every time Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – under which China is connecting itself with its “natural partners” along the Silk Road trading routes of the past – continues to be a guide for the Arab world and the Middle East.
The visit was widely welcomed by African development experts as an opportunity for new cooperation between China and the African continent.
President Xi Jinping has just embarked on a new visit to Africa, boosting Sino-African relations to a stage of growth unmatched in history.
This will mark the opening of another “new chapter of relations between China and Africa” and cement China’s role as one of the continent’s closest economic and diplomatic allies.
Arab states, as important participants and co-creators of the ancient Silk Road civilization located at the juncture of the land and maritime Silk Roads, are natural partners in Belt and Road cooperation.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang paid an official visit to Germany recently, where he co-chaired the fifth round of China-Germany intergovernmental consultations along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Europe on July 5-11, where he attended the 7th leaders’ meeting of China and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC), in Sofia.
Forty years ago, on December 18, 1978, a brand-new China was born with late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s winning vision of “reform and opening-up.” Like the “Long March,” it was a battle to make China modern and prosperous under the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Under the circumstances of Sino-U.S. trade frictions and Pro-Brexit, China and the UK might become convenient bedfellows – centered around the Belt and Road Initiative and free trade.
Malaysia’s market previously was abuzz with talk that the project would be ditched by the newly elected Pakatan Harapan government as the cost was deemed too high and not viable.