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  December 30, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Chinese Companies Hunting In Latin America For Belt And Road M&A

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Chinese SOEs turn Belt and Road ODI attention to Latin America  China spent more on LatAm M&A in 2020 than in the EU and U.S. combined Latin America-China trade has doubled in past 5 years   Potential is increasing for a future China-Mercosur FTA  
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  December 29, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Russia’s Kaliningrad Emerges As A Major China-Europe Multi-Modal Sea Port

  Kaliningrad offers multi-modal access to Scandinavia Reduces transport time to 15 days from 40-45  Growing need for faster sourcing responses during Covid  The first block train from China to Norway via Kaliningrad has arrived. Germany’s DB Cargo, with their “Scandinavian Shuttle”, in cooperation with Mann Lines Multimodal have launched the container service from Xian to[…..]
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  December 28, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 28, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Foreign Minister Speech At The Belt & Road Forum: Analysis (Silk Road Briefing) Russian President Putin’s Annual Q&A: Key Takeaways For Investors How China Can Become The World’s Top Economy Without Starting a War (Nikkei Asia) Risky Rise: How The CCP And China Has Evolved Under Xi[…..]
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  December 22, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China To Invest US$300 Million In Sri Lanka Based Export-Oriented Tyre Factory

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Sri Lanka announced the first large-scale Chinese investment in manufacturing in the country last week, a US$300-million tyre factory near the Hambantota deep water port on the south-East Coast.
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  December 21, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Foreign Minister At The Belt & Road Forum For International Cooperation: Analysis Of Wang Yi’s Statements, And The Impact On China FDI & ODI In 2021.

  Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Chinese State Counceller and Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave the opening speech at this year’s meeting of the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), held virtually in Beijing on Friday (December 18).  The Advisory Council and BRF is an international political and economical forum, attended by numerous foreign heads[…..]
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  December 21, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 21, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Belt And Road Initiative: Infrastructure Developments To Expect In 2021 (Silk Road Briefing) The Belt And Road Initiative Is Here To Stay (CGTN) Covid-19 Vaccination Programmes Throughout Asia (Asia Briefing) Russia Wants Free Trade Expansion Of Eurasian Economic Union (Russia Briefing) Assessing China’s Digital Silk Road: A[…..]
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  December 17, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  BRICS NDB Bank Finances New Projects In Brazil, Russia & South Africa

  Approves US$2.7 billion in project finance Further US$2 billion for Covid SME relief in Brazil & India Discussing expanding membership   
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  December 16, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt And Road Initiative: Infrastructure Developments To Expect In 2021

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in China spending some US$4 trillion on projects since its inception seven years ago. Among these, 1,590 projects – valued at US$1.9 trillion – were BRI projects, while 1,574 other projects with a combined value of US$2.1 trillion have been classified as “Projects with Chinese involvement”. That[…..]
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  December 14, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  The African Continental Free Trade Agreement Starts From 1st January 2021.

  This Is What It Means For Foreign Investors & Global Manufacturers. Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  New African free trade deal unites a US$3.4 trillion market and eliminates tariffs on 90% of all goods  AfCFTA with China’s Belt And Road Initiative promise huge manufacturing potential Chinese and Russian investors already well advanced into the African market[…..]
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  December 14, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 14, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Buying Power: How China Co-Opts The UN (The Spectator) The China Challenge After 2020 (Foreign Policy Research Institute) Recalibrating US-China Relations (East Asia Forum)  China Pulls Back From The World: Rethinking Xi’s Project Of The Century (Financial Times) The Future Of The Belt And Road Initiative (IR Magazine)[…..]