The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) serves as a tool for the Chinese ... The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. The New Silk Road is the defacto label applied to the emerging network ...

China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the first time. At the ...

China has bought up a majority stake in the Greek port of Piraeus - and Italy might be next China's president lands in Rome on Thursday, where he is expected to sign a landmark infrastructure deal ...

The UAE's logistics industry is gearing up to take advantage of China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI), under which projects ... from the development of the new Silk Road in the form of shorter ...

Since then, China’s BRI, particularly the Digital Silk Road (DSR), has expanded, with Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE driving IT infrastructure projects like broadband networks and smart cities.