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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
TopicOne Belt One Road

Topic: One Belt One Road

China wants to reduce smoking, but its largest revenue comes from tobacco. Solution? BRI

While China hopes to curtail domestic tobacco consumption by 2030, it also aims to control the global tobacco market in its entirety.

Australia to get tough with China, block Beijing’s influence through Belt & Road

Months after Victoria signed on to join BRI, PM Scott Morrison is seeking new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers.

Don’t panic yet, China’s Belt & Road project doesn’t mean it’ll boost Beijing’s power

China is playing the role of loan shark with smaller countries in terms of GDP, increasingly isolating it globally. This is not a winning game for it.

Who should be afraid of One Belt One Road? China

Skepticism about the Belt and Road is spreading

China is racing to complete 2 nuclear plants to ease Karachi’s power shortage

The construction of the two nuclear power plants began in 2013, about 25 km west of Karachi, and is scheduled for completion in 2021 & 2022.

Malaysia doesn’t have the appetite for China’s One Belt One Road initiative anymore

Mahathir govt fears China is slowly colonising Malaysia with its newest project.

More countries fight China’s rise as colonial power, but India fails to make the most of it

Lack of a strong political will and huge gap between promise and project completion remains India's biggest challenge.

Nepal PM Oli in China to hold bilateral talks with Premier Li Keqiang

Both countries expected to sign agreements on energy, tourism & other sectors under China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative.

Everything ‘goes better with a coke’, and Donald Trump’s nukes

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or...

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor work moving at fast pace

Satellite images reveal CPEC road passes through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, China promised $62 billion investment in the project.

On Camera

Pakistan cyber attacked India right after Pahalgam. How govt acted against it

Malicious actors sprang into action soon after reports of the Pahalgam attack, ramping up activity in the following days. They created fake domains mimicking legitimate services to deploy malware targeting Indian government and defence personnel.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

3 oceans & a crew of 2 on historic voyage: Women Navy officers to return home after 8 months at sea

Lieutenant Commanders Dilna K & Roopa A’s expedition aboard INSV Tarini is the first-ever such global circumnavigation by Indian women in a double-handed mode.

There’s an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power has become its hard liability

India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.