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  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    China grants billions in bailouts as Belt and Road Initiative falters

    New study attempts to capture total rescue loans from world’s biggest bilateral creditor

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Pakistan
    Pakistan taps Chinese credit for railway upgrade despite debt crisis

    Islamabad says $10bn revamp of colonial-era line is essential even as it faces risk of default and forex reserves plunge

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    The Big Read
    India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender

    With the private sector’s help, New Delhi has stepped up spending on infrastructure in neighbouring countries

  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    China emerges as IMF competitor with emergency loans to at-risk nations

    Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Argentina have together received more than $32bn since 2017, data show

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Yu Jie
    China faces a new test of its economic statecraft

    Beijing must learn from its mistakes if it is to make a success of the Global Development Initiative

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Bangladesh’s finance minister warns on Belt and Road loans from China

    Beijing’s poor lending decisions risk pushing developing nations into debt distress, says Kamal

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    News in-depthKenya
    China’s role at the heart of Kenya’s election campaign

    Deputy president threatens deportations of Chinese nationals while veteran rival promises renegotiation of Beijing loans

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    China’s emerging Belt and Road debt crisis

    The architecture of global development finance needs an overhaul

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    China’s Belt and Road spending in Russia drops to zero

    Beijing shifts investment focus to Saudi Arabia but continues to buy Russian oil and gas

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    The Big Read
    China reckons with its first overseas debt crisis

    The Belt and Road Initiative has seen a surge in loans going bad, prompting Beijing to issue countries with emergency credit

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    Chinese state-owned company accused of endangering rare orang-utans

    SDIC has marketed its environmental credentials but has invested in controversial hydropower plant

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    ‘Speed dating’ with Xi: China shows off its new friends at Winter Olympics

    Beijing touts ‘solidarity’ with partners such as Moscow in face of US-led diplomatic boycott

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    China pours money into Iraq as US retreats from Middle East

    Beijing strengthens regional ties despite overall fall in Belt and Road investment

  • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
    Pakistan seeks to calm protesters at Chinese Belt and Road port project

    Poor fishermen complain they are seeing no benefits from multimillion-dollar investment

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    China-Pakistan Belt and Road Initiative hits buffers

    Disagreements, terrorism and Covid continue to stymie CPEC projects

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Martin Sandbu
    Clear ambition is required if Europe is to rival China’s Belt and Road

    The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ infrastructure plan risks faltering without proper funding and explicit aims

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    Laos to open Chinese-built railway amid fears of Beijing’s influence

    Project in one of Asia’s poorest countries stokes concerns over financial and political risks

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    What’s next for Huawei?

    Hong Kong could see its worst quarter for new listings since the early days of the pandemic

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
    ‘Hidden debt’ on China’s Belt and Road tops $385bn, says new study

    More than 40 countries have debt exposure to Beijing greater than 10% of their GDP

  • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
    Belt and Road dam in Cambodia branded a ‘disaster’ for local communities

    Report says Chinese-funded projects threaten a food crisis in the Mekong river delta

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Pakistan
    China calls on Pakistan to punish perpetrators of ‘terrorist attack’ on bus

    Nine Chinese nationals killed in blast that Islamabad says was an accident

  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    Trade Secrets
    How the US and EU can compete with China’s Belt and Road Premium content

    Beijing reins back its infrastructure ambitions but Washington and Brussels fail to plug the gap

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US withdraws

    Beijing is ready to co-operate with Taliban to prevent chaos across its border, diplomats say

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Gu Bin
    China’s Belt and Road Initiative should stop financing new coal power

    Ending the fuel’s use would help meet climate commitments and foster co-operation with western nations

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Europe Express
    EU to develop investment initiative to counter Chinese influence Premium content

    Draft statement seeks a “geostrategic approach” to investments abroad

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