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China aspires to fill US space by forging ties with Saudi Arabia
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], January 31 (ANI): As the US appears to withdraw from its political and strategic commitment from the Middle East, China wishes to fill that void as countries such as Saudi Arabia have expanded their search for potential security partners.
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Baloch nationalism spreads its tentacles beyond rugged mountains
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Baluchistan [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): As Pakistan has looked the other way to the pleas of Baluchistan ethnic nationalism, it has fuelled a new sense of separatist war against Islamabad in the province.
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Syria joins BRI as West continues to criticize Beijing for its debt trap t
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], January 14 (ANI): Amid rising accusations against China for trapping countries in massive debts with larger infrastructure plans, Syria has joined Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative which Beijing says will open broad horizons of cooperation for the Middle-East country.
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Voices against China continue to rise in Nepal; anti-China protests a dail
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], January 12 (ANI/Khabarhub): As China continues to increase political, economic and cultural presence, including controversial approaches and pressure in Nepal, Nepalis have started hitting the streets holding anti-China demonstrations across the country.
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China expanding footprint in Sri Lanka, views it as geo strategic hub for
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], January 4 (ANI): China is expanding its footprint in Sri Lanka, particularly in an area which it had hitherto neglected as it views the Island nation as a geostrategic hub for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Indian Ocean.
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BRI designed to make profits for Chinese companies at cost of recipient co
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project has become synonymous with wasteful spending, ecological destruction and massive debt burdens and aims to make profits for the participating country's leaders and Chinese companies at the cost of the nation's
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EU envisages strategy to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): European Union has envisaged better planning to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and become a stronger geopolitical entity.
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China is increasingly facing 'BRI backlash' across the world
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 21 (ANI): Discontentment is growing against Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects with Beijing facing a "BRI backlash" in a number of countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.
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Protests in Pakistan's Gwadar against Belt and Road Initiative project con
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Gwadar [Pakistan], December 17 (ANI): Month-long protests in Pakistan's port city of Gwadar have upped the ante against the Belt and Road Initiative project making damaging prospects for Chinese investment.
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Pakistan struggles to pay Chinese debts amid ballooning external payments
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 4 (ANI): Beijing's debts are squeezing Pakistan's pinched finances as external payments are set to balloon to USD 14 billion at the end of this financial year and nearly half is owed to Chinese commercial banks, largely for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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EU launches new USD 340bn global connectivity strategy to counter China's
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 2 (ANI): The European Commission (EC) has announced a new USD 340-billion global strategy to boost sustainable links around the world called Global Gateway, a move being seen as a counter to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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Jaishankar refers to China's BRI at SCO meet, says any serious connectivit
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): In a veiled reference to China's Belt and Road Initiative, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said any serious connectivity initiative must be consultative, transparent and participatory and conform to principles of sovereignty and ter
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