Kenya Railways announced on Wednesday that, beginning in 2024, tickets to ride the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from the capital, Nairobi, to Mombasa would cost 50 percent more than their current price.
The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni is reportedly preparing to leave Communist China’s Belt and Road global domination scheme this year.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Joe Biden have begun plotting a “green alternative” to the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative in the wake of Beijing sanctioning a group of British MPs.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there is a “communist takeover” of large swaths of Britain’s private education sector, as an investigation has revealed that schools throughout the country have been bought out by firms connected to the Chinese government.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi insisted Monday that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an international infrastructure program criticized as debt-fueled imperialism by the U.S. government, is doing better than ever after the coronavirus pandemic.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly ordered British diplomats to try to counter the “expansionism” of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Belt and Road initiative following accusations that the regime in Beijing pressured Barbados to remove the Queen as its
“Some islands seem to be close to swapping a symbolic Queen in Windsor for a real and demanding emperor in Beijing.”
Johnson “loves China”, is supports its imperialist Belt and Road project, details of a call between him and Chaiman Xi claims.
Japanese media reported on Monday that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo intervened to convince Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele not to give control of a key port in the country to the Chinese Communist Party.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a windfall of alleged “donations” from the Chinese government during a visit to Beijing Tuesday, a marked digression from Bukele hinting he may cut ties with China entirely upon assuming the presidency in February.
Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation is inking deals with African nations for nuclear reactors, including some highly unstable governments and undeveloped nations that do not require the amount of electricity generated by the plants.
Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping, who has been keeping a relatively low profile since the protest movement in Hong Kong erupted, addressed a meeting of China’s central planning committee on Monday and called for some “improvements” that belie deep economic anxieties in Beijing.
China welcomed military chiefs from many African countries to Beijing over the weekend to discuss peacekeeping missions and the Asian giant’s efforts to expand its armed forces footprint on the continent during an ongoing week-long summit that began Sunday.
American President Donald Trump met his Brazilian counterpart, conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, on Friday at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where Bolsonaro promised to show the world that, following his election, “politics in Brazil has indeed changed.”
The government of Zimbabwe recently completed agreements to receive over $58 million in investment grants from China during a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Zimbabwean media reported Wednesday.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet in Beijing Tuesday for President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, one of the signatories to Beijing’s multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road project.
Kenyan authorities are seeking the deportation of four Chinese railway workers for a gang beating of a Kenyan engineer inspecting a project site under their supervision, local media reported this weekend.
David P. Goldman, Asia Times columnist, told Breitbart News “tariffs aren’t going to be enough to stop the Chinese juggernaut.”
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi previewed the third annual Belt and Road Forum by defending China’s infrastructure plan as a constructive program, rather than the string of debt traps depicted in U.S. criticism. He prodded the U.S. to stop interfering with Belt and Road by persuading prospective members to back away from the project.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda arm published an opinion piece condemning “the West” for the current instability in Libya on Tuesday, arguing that “the West couldn’t care less” about Tripoli and that Libya is “one of the biggest failures” of the Arab Spring.
According to U.S. defense officials quoted by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday, China is developing a long-range cruise missile that can be hidden inside shipping containers and launched from civilian freighters, a type of ship China happens to own in abundance.
ROME (AP) – Italy signed a memorandum of understanding with China on Saturday supporting Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative, which aims to weave a network of ports, bridges and power plants linking China with Africa, Europe and beyond.
The European Union has decided to get a little tougher with China, although its members are divided on exactly what that means. The international organization apparently wishes to curtail Chinese political influence without unduly interfering with anyone’s ability to take Chinese money.
Italian officials on Wednesday said their government will officially endorse China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) later in March, becoming the first G-7 nation to sign on to Beijing’s plan for spreading its political and economic influence around the world.
China’s envoy to Turkey, Deng Li, on Thursday issued a very thinly-veiled threat against Turkish “commercial and economic” interests if the Turkish government does not mute its criticism of how China treats the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang province.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday, capping a tour of Asia that was widely seen as the Saudis “pivoting to the East” after losing Western friends over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. MBS also visited India and Pakistan on his way to China.
China confirmed this week that its government has written off almost $80 million in debt from Cameroon following pressure from Chinese journalists who uncovered the deal.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping called for “unity and harmony” among Persian Gulf states as he welcomed Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to Beijing on Thursday.
Contents: Kenya’s leaked BRI contract reveals shocking China debt trap details; Leaked clauses in Kenya-China BRI contract; Uganda’s auditor warns that Uganda may be in similar China debt trap as Kenya; India pledges $1.4 billion to Maldives to help with China debt trap
Lee Hae-chan, chairman of South Korea’s governing Democratic Party (DP), said on Friday that he expects Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to visit both North and South Korea this spring.
Contents: Kenya’s debt repayments to China triple in July; Concerns grow that China may take control of Kenya’s port at Mombasa
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday denied reports that China is preparing to seize the strategic port of Mombasa as compensation for delinquent loan payments, denouncing reports of the impending seizure as “propaganda.”
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping repeatedly referenced challenges, hardships, and potential “complications” facing his country in 2019 during a speech Monday observing the new year, vowing to “create Chinese miracles” in the next 12 months.
Pakistan on Thursday vehemently dismissed news reports that China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which Beijing repeatedly defends as peaceful, took a military turn in the country.
China claims to be interested in free and fair “win-win” trade deals but, in reality, its economic practices have always been unfair and predatory.
Uganda graduated its first set of Mandarin language teachers on Thursday, equipped to teach in secondary (high) schools and supported by the Chinese government.
The New York Times on Wednesday chronicled the meteoric rise and equally precipitous downfall of Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming. The “People’s Liberation Army princeling” rolled into Washington as a shining example of China’s booming economy but now sits in an unknown Chinese prison cell while his empire collapses and his underlings face charges in U.S. federal court.
The Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa, told Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday that his country will “push forward the construction of the Belt and Road” in Europe, China’s plan to control all of the world’s most important transportation hubs.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping arrived in Portugal ON Tuesday for the final stop in his European and Latin America tour this month, anchored by the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri and Chinese Communist Party leader spent much of Sunday, the day after the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires together, signing billion-dollar trade deals and exchanging gifts.
