The following is the May 16, 2024, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative: Economic Issues. From the report The People’s Republic of China ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever conceived. Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping ...

China’s outsize exposure to developing-world debt is one of many economic troubles the country’s government-directed economy is facing.

Now, as representatives from many of the nearly 150 Belt and Road countries assemble in Beijing this week for a summit, the initiative is changing shape.

Russia President Vladimir Putin said that he sees China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a desire to cooperate on the global arena, Russian and Chinese news agencies reported on Sunday.

China on Tuesday kicked off a summit marking the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative – an ambitious yet controversial undertaking to boost connectivity and trade across the world ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced in Beijing Monday that his country would be joining China's Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the Silk Road.

When the plan was given an official name—“One Belt, One Road”—it suggested that China was putting itself back at the centre of the world.

China’s signature Belt and Road Initiative has failed to live up to Beijing’s original lofty goals, a new report by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) claims.

China hosts the third Belt and Road Forum this week, marking the 10-year anniversary of its multinational investment initiative. In the second of a three-part series, Jevans Nyabiage looks at ...

When President Xi Jinping first assembled world leaders to map out his vision for expanding Chinese soft power via a web of infrastructure investment in 2017, he called the Belt and Road ...

China's Belt and Road Initiative looks to become smaller and greener after a decade of big projects that boosted trade but left big debts and raised environmental concerns.