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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicBelt and Road Initiative

Topic: Belt and Road Initiative

China is buying good press across the world, one paid journalist at a time

Ananth Krishnan -
It coincides with launch of Belt and Road initiative and president Xi Jinping's call to “tell China’s story better” to the world.

China must put Belt and Road on a smarter and more modest course

Bloomberg View -
The sheer size of the Belt and Road Initiative, often called a trillion-dollar enterprise, has bred paranoia and resentment.

As US and China battle it out, India stands to gain

Ananth Krishnan -
New Delhi needs to seize the opportunity for a win-win scenario.

The fear of another crisis like 2008 has made banking more boring

Mihir Sharma -
In a bid to make finance safe, we have ended up forcing developing countries to rely on their own resources or on dangerous new benefactors, such as China for funds. 

China may defy debt-trap talk with more cash for Africa & the Queen of Soul never made a will

Sankalita Dey -
Theresa May rules out a second Brexit referendum and second hand fashion industry is going big in UAE. 

Arabs turn blind eye to persecution of Chinese Muslims because of Beijing’s power

Jyoti Malhotra -
As Xi Jinping’s BRI becomes China’s pet project, there is a dramatic escalation in the country’s persecution of the Uyghurs.

India’s answer to Chinese Belt & Road Initiative should be a new road map for South Asia

Darshana Baruah -
While New Delhi sees the sense of promoting regional connectivity, it has serious strategic concerns about working with China on its eastern border.

This is why China could collapse like the Soviet Union

David Fickling -
China's dying labour-force boom, like the Soviet Union's in the 1970s, may not revive even with Silk Road project’s heavy investments.

China is forcing devout Muslims to drink liquor, but the world is looking away

Mihir Sharma -
Beijing needs to realise that repression in Xinjiang, through which several ancient trade routes passed, can take a heavy toll on Xi’s pet Belt & Road Initiative.

China responsible for Pakistan’s debt crisis and IMF should stay out of it

Christopher Balding -
IMF bailing out Pakistan will only encourage moral hazard among countries availing Chinese loans.
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