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  January 2, 2023 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – January 02 2023

  All the latest international news, analysis and opinion from the BRI Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China Appoints New Foreign Minister (China Briefing) Russia’s Medvedev Meets With China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing (Russia Briefing) China to Significantly Relax Its Travel Restrictions Starting January 8, 2023 (China Briefing) China’s Policymakers Set Sights on Growth[…..]
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  December 29, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Turkmenistan Preparing Legislation For Establishment Of Free Economic Zones

  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis   Turkmenistan Ministers have begun to develop a state program for the creation of Free Economic Zones (FEZ), with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Hojamyrat Geldimyradov discussing the concept with President Serdar Berdimuhamedov during a Turkmen government meeting this week.
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  December 28, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan 2022 Bilateral Trade Up 12.7%

  The trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan increased by 12.7% from January through to November 2022, amounting to US$858.6 million, according to the Uzbek State Statistics Committee.
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  December 27, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Bangladesh’s BRI Tunnel Unites Dhaka With Chittagong And Cox’s Bazaar

  First South Asian Under-River Tunnel Will Significantly Assist Regional Trade & Bangladesh’s Export Manufacturing Capabilities   The Chinese built and BRI funded Karnaphuli Tunnel has opened and is the first under-river road tunnel in South Asia.  It is expected to improve the Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway network and improve traffic for a catchment area of about 34[…..]
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  December 26, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Discussing Trans-Uzbek-Afghan Railway Routes To Arabian Sea

  Serik Zhumangarin, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Trade & Integration has met with Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Prime Minister to discuss participation in the construction of the Trans-Afghan railroad.
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  December 25, 2022 by silkroadadmin
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – December 26 2022

  All the latest international news, analysis and opinion from the BRI Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Economy in 2022: A Tumultuous Year Ending with an Optimistic Outlook (China Briefing) Managing Your China Manufacturing & Supply Chains During COVID Outbreaks (China Briefing) The RCEP Free Trade Agreement: A Key Factor In BRI Regional[…..]
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  December 22, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Christmas Dinners Along the Old Silk Road

  Recipes and Traditions from the Three Wise Men, who came from the East   By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  It is the Christmas season, and as the Three Wise Men came from the East, we look at Christmas along the ancient and modern Silk Road and how people along it will be celebrating – or not –[…..]
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  December 21, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  The RCEP Free Trade Agreement A Key Factor In BRI Growth & Development

  FTA accounts for US$12.7 trillion – over 25% of global trade in goods and services  The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are contributors to regional and global economic recovery efforts, academics speaking at the 17th annual international conference on “New World Order: Competition, Integration and Multipolarity”, at the Institute[…..]
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  December 20, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan To Give 20% Discounts For Using Eastern INSTC Rail Routes To & From Russia, Middle East, Central Asia, Indian, South Asian And Chinese Businesses

  Move will financially incentivize Middle Corridor trade while making EU-Asian routes less regionally competitive.   By Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Russian Railways (RZD) , together with the railways of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran, has decided to grant reduced container-kilometer rates in 2023 for using the infrastructure of the eastern route of the North-South international transport corridor that[…..]
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  December 20, 2022 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Georgia’s Trade With Russia, China & Turkiye Up 32% During 2022

  The Caucasus is moving East, not West as competitiveness, energy and supply chains all point to Asia By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Ukraine conflict has moved the Caucasus region further to the East in terms of trade, rather than towards Europe, according to preliminary data from Georgia’s national statistics office and despite EU attempts to persuade[…..]