The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) has launched a new feature of its activities through a series of webcasts and podcasts addressing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from different perspectives. In…
When covering the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of the regions that is not receiving enough attention in the European and Swedish media in general and economic and business publications is the ASEAN…
Updated list of BRI member-states (2021)
The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) has assembled an updated list of nations that have joined the Belt and Road Initiative by January 2021. The list includes…
As part of a long-standing tradition of Chinese foreign policy, Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked on an Africa tour in the first week of the new year 2021 with a visit to five nations.…
Guest commentary by William Jones *
The State Council of China on December 21 issued a China_Transport_White_Paper_2020 outlining the achievements that have been reached in uniting the nation and laying out the path forward for the nation.…
The EU and China completed the bilateral Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI) on December 30. The agreement, which has been negotiated for the last seven years, is seen as a success of the German…
By the board members of Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
The Chinese government had designated the end of the year 2020 as the deadline for eliminating extreme poverty in China. On Nov. 23, authorities…
Ethiopia's Homegrown Economic Reform: A Road from Aid-Driven Growth to National Prosperity.
Unlike some aid dependent countries, Ethiopia has persistently resisted donors driven development aid approach and donors influence on national policy formulations and practices…
Hussein Askary
Board member of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
The global community, as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in July 2019, was already “off-track” in terms of reaching the UN’s Sustainable…
Hussein Askary
Overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its undeniable devastating effects on almost every nations’ economic and social wellbeing, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) remained alive and kicking. And, in contrast to some…