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  June 29, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – June 29, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion White Elephant? China’s Belt & Road Deserves More Credit (South China Morning Post) Remolding China’s ‘Empty’ Belt & Road Initiative: An Opportunity For The EU (Egmont Institute) Demystifying The Belt & Road Initiative (Encompass Europe) One Belt One Road: China’s Revival Of Its ‘Middle Kingdom’ Dream – And[…..]
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  June 26, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – June 26, 2020

  The Great Game: The Epic Story Behind Today’s BRI Headlines Peter Hopkirk’s spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has long been regarded as essential reading with that era’s legacy playing itself out today along China’s Belt & Road Initiative. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across[…..]
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  June 25, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Belt & Road Initiative Military Strength On Display As Russian, Chinese, Indian & Central Asian Armies March At Moscow’s Red Square

  Event ignored by the West carries huge Eurasian geo-political significance  Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Russian, Chinese and Indian Military and Governments have thrown a statement of intent to the West in parading soldiers on Red Square yesterday, being the delayed Victory Parade concerning the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of WWII in 1945.[…..]
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  June 25, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  India Becomes Transportation Hub Of China’s Belt & Road Initiative As Co-Investments Increase

  Actual developments far different from official policy, media hype and recent events suggest concerning China-India connectivity Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis China-India relations have been hitting the headlines recently, with skirmishes in the Galwan Valley near Ladakh leaving numerous soldiers dead in a fairly serious outbreak of violence. Both sides have agreed terms to back off[…..]
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  June 23, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Ruble, Yuan & Rupee To Dominate Future Belt & Road Eurasian Transactions

  Op/ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis  Moves by numerous countries to move away from US dollar transactions have been gathering steam, and look set to develop further as trust in the United States continues to slump in the wake of trade threats and overly aggressive use of the US dollar as a weapon. The attitude  towards the[…..]
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  June 22, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Belt & Road And Beyond – June 22, 2020

  Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion China’s Two Sessions Meetings And Belt & Road Initiative Developments (Silk Road Briefing) China To Develop Belt & Road Into Model Of Cooperation (Pakistan News) China: Victim No More (Asia Power Watch) Geopolitics After Covid-19: Conflict Or Cooperation? (The Globalist) China Tightens Its Belt & Road (Geopolitical Futures)[…..]
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  June 19, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s New Silk Road: Weekly Arts & Culture Round Up – June 19, 2020

  Journey To The West * The Guo Brothers * Ju Duo * Baijiu Martini  Journey To The West  Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng’en. It is one of the Four Great Classics of Chinese literature and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work[…..]
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  June 19, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Turkic Council To Establish US$500 Million Investment Fund

  Intra-Grouping Trade Expected To Increase The Istanbul-initiated Turkic Council has said that it will set up a US$500m investment fund to boost economic links between member states.
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  June 18, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  Uzbekistan Applies For EU GSP+ Trading Status, Doubling Duty Free Export Categories

  Increasing Trade & Export Opportunities In Uzbekistan Uzbekistan has applied to join an EU trading scheme that eases tariffs for developing countries if they improve their human rights records.
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  June 17, 2020 by Silk Road Briefing
  

  China’s Two Sessions Meetings And The Belt & Road Developments

  Global Political and Corporate Questions Arise From China’s Challenges To World Governance & Trade Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis with research by Dorcas Wong, Dezan Shira & Associates  China’s top leaders convened for the annual Two Sessions meetings at the end of May, following months of delays due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Two Sessions refer to the[…..]