China’s Belt and Road Initiative was supposed to reshape the world with ports, railways, airports and highways stretching across Asia, Africa and Europe. Instead, many of these megaprojects became ...

Laos borrowed big — mainly from China through the Belt and Road Initiative — to fund an ambitious infrastructure program. Some have accused China of carrying out "debt-trap diplomacy" by intentionally ...

It has been over 11 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative. Since then, hundreds of billions of dollars have flowed from China to infrastructure projects ...

For more than a decade, the phrase debt-trap diplomacy has haunted the corridors of African finance ministries, Western think ...

Our work covers what the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is and explores its global reach and geopolitical impact. Image — Sri Lankan road construction workers in Colombo. The island is a key link in ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang's speech comes amid a pullback of U.S. support for Western-led institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. China launched a regional development program called the Belt ...

China on Thursday rejected "misunderstandings" fuelling concerns about its Belt and Road global infrastructure programme but vowed to tame debt risks as it opened a summit on its signature foreign ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - World leaders meeting in Beijing this week for a summit on China's Belt and Road initiative will agree to project financing that respects global debt goals and promotes green ...

A classified Australian Federal Police-Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) investigations brief has uncovered a direct correlation between Australian drug money and China’s trade ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formalized his country’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or New Silk Road, a sprawling geoeconomic development project that already includes over 140 ...