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The West Searches For How To Compete With China s Belt And Road
May 19, 2021 07:36 GMT
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Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
As you may have heard, the China In Eurasia newsletter will now be going out twice a month. Expect to see it in your inbox on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now.
In Search Of A Western Belt And Road
Growing disillusionment with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s massive infrastructure project, has opened the door for an alternative to emerge. Ahead of next month’s Group of Seven (G7) summit, discussion within the group is heating up around how to rival Beijing’s signature policy.
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Beijing s Controversial European Projects Get Pushed Into The Spotlight
May 05, 2021 06:47 GMT
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Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Big news! The China In Eurasia newsletter will now be going out twice a month. Expect to see it in your inbox on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now.
China Takes Center Stage In Europe
Debt problems and transparency concerns pushed Beijing’s projects across Europe into the spotlight this month. A controversial Beijing-financed highway project in Montenegro and a $1.5 billion loan to build a Chinese university in Hungary have rung alarm bells in Brussels as both ventures pointed to growing influence within the European Union and on its doorstep.