During a weeklong trip to China, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili made a surprise announcement: Georgia and China will elevate their bilateral...
Tag - Belt and Road Initiative
As governments and civil society organisations in the region work to fight illicit financial flows, recent geopolitical developments have made that important work...
Amid renewed talk of high-speed trains running from Bucharest to Budapest, the fastest way to speed up connections between Hungary and Romania would be the...
Central Asian leaders recently convened in Xi’an to announce an unprecedented number of agreements with China. Deepening ties with Beijing come as other international...
With East-West trade routes being quickly reconfigured as a result of international sanctions against the Moscow regime, alternatives to transit through Russia could...
China’s dreams of increasing its influence in Central and Eastern Europe through the so-called 16+1 initiative are crumbling. This offers a real opportunity for the...
Economies in emerging Europe – and further afield – will now have a further option to finance important and much needed investment in infrastructure. The...
It has been a decade since Tajikistan ceded part of its territory to China in lieu of loan repayments. Is history about to repeat itself? In 2011 Tajikistan offered...
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover has increased the strategic importance of the five Central Asia states. Russia, China – and...
Ukraine’s recent overtures towards China are unlikely to lead to a real shift in foreign policy. On June 22, China pressured Ukraine – with threats to limit...
It’s now more than a year since Beijing officially opened a new transportation corridor that connects China with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, but it remains far from...
China’s economic influence in Central and Eastern Europe is often touted as a threat to the region’s independence and security. But just how big is that...
