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  December 27, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Outbound Investment Into ASEAN Compared With US Investment into Mexico and Central America

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Showcasing China’s desire to develop bilateral trade via the BRI against the US desire to reduce migration and boost exports. The B3W is a very different animal to the Belt and Road Initiative. The United States ‘Build Back Better World‘ (B3W) program has hit political stumbling blocks with various Senators questioning the[…..]
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  December 26, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 27 2021

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion How Non-Member Nations Can Access The January 1st RCEP Free Trade Agreement Through The Back Door (Silk Road Briefing) A Transatlantic Strategy To Check China’s Belt and Road Initiative (National Interest) China Is Not Ten Feet Tall (Foreign Affairs) How INGOs Mediate China’s “Going Out” Strategy (Oxford University[…..]
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  December 23, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Pakistan-Iran-Turkey Rail Freight Line Reopens After Ten Years

  Islamabad-Istanbul rail service resumes and will boost trade among the Economic Cooperation Organisation countries The first freight train to run from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed after a 10-year hiatus in a major boost to the trading capabilities of the three founders of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
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  December 22, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  How Non-Member Nations Can Access The January 1st RCEP Free Trade Agreement Through The Back Door

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Great Britain, Russia And The United States can all leverage RCEP advantages via other agreements they already have in place  The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement comes into effect from January 1st, when all member nations can embark on duty free trade with each other provided they meet certain quality[…..]
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  December 22, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Uzbekistan Prises Open Door To RCEP By Moving Along With South Korea Free Trade Agreement

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  South Korea and Uzbekistan agreed last Friday (December 17) to expedite efforts to clinch a bilateral free trade agreement and to boost cooperation on stable supply chains of key industrial items, Seoul’s finance ministry has said.
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  December 20, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China Hosts Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation: Analysis

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Includes PDF of New Governmental BRI Report: “High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Partnership on Connectivity” On Friday, December 17, 2021, the Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation 2021 was held via video link. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressed the opening ceremony of the[…..]
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  December 19, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 20 2021

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion How Chinese Financing Is Helping German And US Biotechnology (China Briefing) China Lowers Tariffs On 954 Products From January 1 (China Briefing) Common Prosperity Meets The Belt And Road (Lowy Institute) MERICS Global China Tracker 4 (MERICS) China’s Fengyun Meteorological Satellites Serve Users In 121 Countries And Regions[…..]
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  December 16, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Hard Data Vs. Media: China’s Belt And Road Initiative Has Increased, Not Slowed Investments This Year

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis 14.6% Increase In Investments, 33% Increase In China-Europe Container Volumes China’s Ministry of Commerce has just released data for the period January-October this year, stating that China invested US$16.17 billion in 57 belt and road countries, in the year to end October, marking a 14.6% increase from a year earlier. Singapore, Indonesia,[…..]
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  December 15, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Iran Instigates Persian Gulf – Black Sea Connectivity Infrastructure

  Iran has signed another agreement with governments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia to set up a transit route between the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea. The deal between Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran is one of several that the Iranian government has struck with governments in the region in the past few weeks,[…..]
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  December 14, 2021 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s MyWay Airlines Flies Into Turbulence In Georgia

  Georgia’s Civil Aviation Agency has cancelled the operating licence of the Chinese financed MyWay Airlines because it said that it was no longer Georgian majority owned or controlled, and therefore in breach of its national aviation regulations.