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    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Meloni calls for ‘mutually beneficial’ China trade as Belt & Road decision looms

      Italy seeks to extricate itself from Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative without provoking its wrath

      Giorgia Meloni during a news conference on Sunday in New Delhi after attending the G20 summit
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Italy’s Tajani heads to Beijing to discuss Belt and Road Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Can Erdoğan convince Putin to resuscitate the Ukraine grain deal?

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    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      China’s overseas investment in metals and mining set to hit record

      Beijing intensifies efforts to lock up access to renewable energy supply chain

      Construction of a railway in Indonesia
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      How the US and Europe can beat China’s Belt and Road

      Washington and Brussels need to emphasise open and fair dealing in their developing-world rivalry with Beijing

      William Ruto in suit and tie sits in an armchair and gestures with his right hand
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Central Asia
      Xi Jinping pushes Central Asian defence co-operation plan

      Chinese president’s offer to help with security comes as Russian influence in the region weakens

      Xi clapping at the China-Central Asia Summit
    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Italian politics
      Italy to hold talks with China about exiting Belt and Road Initiative

      Prime minister Giorgia Meloni says ‘debate is open’ on whether to leave Xi Jinping’s foreign investment programme

      Giorgia Meloni and Xi Jinping
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Afghanistan
      China holds security and trade talks with Taliban

      Beijing looks to boost investment in Afghanistan and bring country into Belt and Road project

      Qin Gang, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan respectively, after their meeting in Islamabad on Saturday
    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      FT SeriesDebt deadlock
      China hit by surge in Belt and Road bad loans

      Global finance scheme becomes millstone for Beijing as $78bn renegotiated or written off in past 3 years

      Xi Jinping montage with worker and machinery
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      FT Series
      Debt deadlock

      This series examines why countries in economic distress are struggling to move forward

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      How China is winning the race for Africa’s lithium

      The country already dominates processing of the metal for use in electric vehicle batteries and is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling to keep up

      A Chinese flag with the continent of Africa and a hand displaying some crystal-like products
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      How to avoid a developing world debt crisis

      Surge in China’s rescue lending shows need for co-operation on restructuring

      Chinese construction workers leave a building site in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Unresolved defaults in the developing world are already making life a misery for millions of people
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Beijing’s big bailouts

      JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon to be deposed in Epstein lawsuits

    • Tuesday, 28 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

      A Chinese engineer on site in a Belt and Road project in Hambantota
    • 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

      Passengers look out from the coach windows of a standard economy class train, operated by Pakistan Railways, sitting at Karachi Cantonment railway station in Karachi, Pakistan
    • 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

      A montage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a map of India and a rupee on the background
    • 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

      Chinese construction workers head home after work on site at The Mall at One Galle Face
    • 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

      President Xi Jinping smiles and waves against a red background
    • 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

      AHM Mustafa Kamal in parliament
    • 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

      Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto addresses a rally in Machakos, Kenya
    • 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

      Workers take a break during construction of a highway in Sri Lanka
    • 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

      A picture of workers walking past the Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka
    • 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

      Montage of The Lotus Tower in Colombo, with the Chinese flag in the background
    • 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

      Environmental activists wearing orang-utan masks unfurled banners and posters in Jakarta in 2019
    • 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

      A news report showing Xi Jinping at  the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics
    • 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

      An Iraqi flag in front of a flaring of excess gas at a pipeline at the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq
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