Global development debates often revolve around lofty principles, yet millions of people continue to face everyday obstacles that limit opportunity: unreliable transport, high energy costs and weak ...

China’s flagship overseas infrastructure finance programme the Belt and Road Initiative increased by three-quarters to a record $213.5bn in 2025 as Beijing sought to take advantage of wavering US ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. When China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013, I was a great admirer. On paper, it was—and remains—the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Panama has officially informed Beijing of its decision to withdraw from China's massive infrastructure and investment project, the ...

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. When Panama signed ...

US President Donald Trump is looking to forge more deals to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "I think there's more big deals like that coming ...

Since 2013, when China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), interest in the measure has been sharply divided. Proponents in Beijing and across the Global South view the BRI as a ...

China launched its 'Belt and Road Initiative' in 2013. The BRI is a global mega investment and infrastructure project designed to connect the world's second largest economy to the rest of Asia, Europe ...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s ambitious global infrastructure and connectivity project, has captured the world’s attention with its far-reaching implications on geopolitics, economics, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro after delivering his opening speech for the opening ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum of ...

China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative was sold as a gift to the world, global infrastructure, mutual prosperity, shared growth. But beneath the glossy public relations lies a darker reality ...