China's Belt and Road Initiative has evolved to focus on smaller, smarter projects that are embedding the country in the infrastructure and energy ecosystems of dozens of nations, while also ...

China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...

China’s massive Belt and Road initiative builds global infrastructure — and influence China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most expensive infrastructure project in history. Chinese ...

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.

It has been over 11 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative. Since then, hundreds of billions of dollars have flowed from China to infrastructure projects ...

China and Colombia have signed a joint cooperation plan on the Belt and Road Initiative, state media said on Wednesday after their leaders met in Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against decoupling from China as he addressed the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Wednesday, criticizing Western efforts to reduce dependence on the Chinese ...

Panama has decided to step away from a major global project led by China. The country’s president, José Raúl Mulino, announced that it will not renew its deal with China’s Belt and Road ...

For the record, the most recent country to apply for Belt and Road membership was Honduras on June 13, and that was less than three months after China and Honduras formally established diplomatic ...

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

Xi Jinping is trying to revamp his decade-old Belt and Road Initiative, a $1 trillion endeavor to reshape global trade and politics with China in the center.

As the world grapples with the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Palestine, world leaders have been flying to Beijing on Monday to attend the third Belt and Road Forum. China's President ...