2018 October 13
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The third international Silk Road Tourism Summit took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Greece’s economy has picked up in the last year or so, a large part driven by (Chinese) tourism. Previous meetings were held in Dunhuang (2013) and Xi’an (2015). - Read more
President Xi and Trump will meet on the sides of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next month and seek to resolve the trade war according to WSJ. - Read more
Shanghai courts have finished 2,464 cases involving The Belt and Road countries and regions in five years, according to Shanghai Higher People’s Court. - Read more
After seeing its current account deficit increase rapidly in recent years, Pakistan has been forced to revert back to the IMF bailout and is seeing between $6-12 billion. US however have said they would veto any bailout which helps Pakistan pay loans to China. - Read more