Hailed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as “the project of the century”, the One Belt ... business with Asia. HISTORICAL PRECEDENT: While a new idea, OBOR also harkens back to medieval times, when the ...

Over the next decade the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) became a gigantic infrastructure, trade, and connectivity project, spreading beyond Eurasia and Southeast Asia to regions such as South Asia ...

If general impressions are to be believed, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s One-Belt-One-Road project—at least ... brought neighboring areas like Southeast Asia in to the world economy.

At two top-level gatherings in Asia last month—the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the East Asia ... the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Silk Road, or One Belt One ...

Dominated by Japanese investment since the 1980s, Southeast Asia has found a new source of funds in China. Chinese companies poured a record $14.6 billion of foreign direct investment into ...

China launched the BRI, also known by the names "One Belt, One Road" and "New Silk Road," with a summit in Beijing on May 14 that was dubbed the biggest diplomatic event of the year. Delegates ...

Singapore: China’s funding promises under its contentious Belt and Road Initiative are falling short by close to $80 billion in South-East Asia alone ... US12 billion, as one of the most ...

But coming at a time when United States is turning inwards under President Donald Trump, Mr Xi’s One Belt One Road (OBOR ... especially pronounced in South-east Asia where nations which have ...

Southeast Asia is where the land “Belt” and sea “Road” of the massive initiative converge. Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the six ... interests in the South China Sea and on other ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (now promoted as BRI but still widely referred to in English by its original acronym, OBOR [One Belt One Road]) provides ... China’s BRI, when it comes to Southeast ...

While Beijing’s efforts to militarize the South China Sea is seen as a direct challenge to American influence in Asia, the potential military aspects of development under the One Belt One Road ...

Hailed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as “the project of the century”, the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative promises to radically transform a vast swathe of the world’s trade and transport ...