2019 January 14
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Kim Jong Un visited Beijing last week. He may be looking to engage the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting through into Liaoning Province and the railways into Europe. The Korean Peninsula would then become the Eastern most terminus of BRI. - Read more
The Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation published a report that concluded: “No country has put itself in a better position to become the world’s renewable energy superpower than China”. - Read more
Pakistan and Alibaba launch first blockchain-based remittance services, showing that the countries have upgraded their cooperation from traditional industries such as infrastructure and energy to innovative technology under Belt and Road. - Read more
It’s not just railways and ports China is building as part of Belt and Road. In Cambodia, a new $160mn national stadium is being financed by Chinese aid and built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation. Due to complete in 2020. - Read more