The United States may be targeting "weak links" in Chinese-backed initiatives or groupings to cut Beijing's growing influence as part of an emerging strategy during President Donald Trump's second ...

On July 1, a cargo train from western China reached Chancay, Peru — a symbolic milestone in Beijing’s quieter but sharper new global infrastructure strategy. As the Belt and Road Initiative evolves, ...

It has been over 11 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative. Since then, hundreds of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. When China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013, I was a great admirer. On paper, it was—and remains—the most ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) in 2013 launched an ambitious and multifaceted foreign economic policy initiative—One Belt, One Road—to expand China’s global economic reach and influence ...

Since 2013, when China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), interest in the measure has been sharply divided. Proponents in Beijing and across the Global South view the BRI as a ...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s ambitious global infrastructure and connectivity project, has captured the world’s attention with its far-reaching implications on geopolitics, economics, ...

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In 2024, the United States invested approximately $60 billion in global infrastructure projects. This investment was part of the broader effort to counterbalance China’s Belt and Road Initiative and ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shake hands during a signing ceremony at Palácio da Alvorada, Brazilia, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2024. Credit: Palácio do ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro after delivering his opening speech for the opening ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum of ...