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  May 20, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Silk Road Development Weekly – May 20, 2019

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Charts Of The Week: China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Brookings Institute) Five Big Myths Of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Bloomberg) Beijing Is Counting On Its Massive Belt & Road Initiative. But Are Chinese Firms On Board? (Washington Post) Belt & Road Initiative Can Encourage Cooperation Amid Global[…..]
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  May 16, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Kazak / Uzbek Trade Expands With Opening Of New Border Trade Center

  Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have stated they are to jointly develop a border trading centre, aimed at easing immigration, customs and warehousing volumes at the border crossing between Shymkent on the Kazak side and Tashkent on the Uzbek side. These are the regions most populous countries, however poor relations until recently have hindered trade for decades.[…..]
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  May 15, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  BRICS Nations Creating BRICS Pay As Cloud Platform Accessible Via Smartphone To Avoid US Dollar Trade

  The BRICS grouping of countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are creating a single payment system, BRICS Pay, as part of the drive to establish a common system for retail payments and transactions between the member countries.
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  May 13, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Silk Road Development Weekly – May 13, 2019

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Asian Nations Cash In On China’s Softer Sell Of Belt & Road (Asia Nikkei) What’s In China’s New Belt & Road Recalibration? (The Diplomat) International Experts Positively Evaluate Results Of Belt & Road Forum In Beijing (Eurasia Review) Facts And Figures From China’s Belt & Road Initiative (China[…..]
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  May 9, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China Pakistan Trade On The Up, And More Volumes In RMB Yuan. Is This A Belt & Road Anti-US$ Trend?

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis In a sign of one of the future directions that China Belt & Road trade can be expected to move in coming years, bilateral trade between China and Pakistan has increased to US$20 billion. What is interesting about this increase is the currency spread used; both sides agreed in November last[…..]
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  May 8, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Uzbekistan Offers PPP Deals To Foreign Investors In Banking & Infrastructure

  The newly reformed and open approach by Uzbekistan to foreign investment has taken another step forward with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signing a decree worth US$1.66 billion and covering 15 projects to foreign investors under public-private partnership (PPP) deals.
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  May 7, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Silk Road Briefing Sponsors Expedition To Find The Source Of The Oxus River

  Silk Road Briefing, published by the Asian investing professional services firm Dezan Shira & Associates, is sponsoring an expedition to discover the source of the Oxus River in Afghanistan, one of the countries along the ancient Silk Road routes.
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  May 6, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  US Congress 2019 China Report Calls China’s Belt & Road A “Preference For A Multipolar World Order.”

  Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The annual China report to the US Congress, titled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019”, has just been released by the US Department of Defense. The first item on the report, indeed on the front cover, is a curious note stating that “Preparation of this report[…..]
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  May 6, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Silk Road Development Weekly – May 6, 2019

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion What Did The Second Belt & Road Forum Say About The Health Of China’s Initiative? (The Diplomat) China Needs To Make The Belt & Road Initiative More Transparent And Predictable (Chatham House) Charting Progress In China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Reconnecting Asia) China And BRI, CPEC Narratives (Eurasia[…..]
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  May 3, 2019 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Russia And China Encircle Eurasia By Adding The Northern Sea Passage To China’s Maritime Belt & Road

  Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Russia’s President Putin has suggested linking Russia’s Northern Sea Passage to China’s Maritime Belt & Road. The proposal, which was made at the 2nd Belt & Road Forum in Beijing last week, will reduce the shipping time and costs for Chinese goods to reach Europe by some two weeks, a huge[…..]