Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese construction workers at a Belt and Road Initiative site in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2023. Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images China currently faces daunting ...

On July 1, a cargo train from western China reached Chancay, Peru — a symbolic milestone in Beijing’s quieter but sharper new global infrastructure strategy. As the Belt and Road Initiative evolves, ...

From the earliest stages, the initiative attracted interest across Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters) - China is expected to promote a recalibrated version of its Belt and Road initiative at a summit of heads of state this week in Beijing, seeking to allay criticism that ...

Last summer, Zijin Mining Group, a Chinese state-owned minerals giant, erected a billboard on the highway from Bishkek to Lake Issyk-Kul, one of the most heavily travelled roads in Kyrgyzstan. The ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Luke Vargas: President Biden urges congressional action to prevent a US rail ...

Since ancient times, ambitious projects have been used as a yardstick to measure advances in human society. From the Great Wall of China to the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France, feats of ...

In 2019, Italy became the first European Union member – and the only G-7 state – to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Four years later, now under a new government, Italy is seeking not to ...

As China expands and advances its interests as a global power, it is important to understand how it projects its ambitions in other countries. Chinese diplomacy took a key turn in 2013 when it ...

At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new ...

Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting in Rome, Italy in March, 2019. Yara Nardi/Reuters Italy’s withdrawal from the Belt and Road Initiative ...