China is hoping to expand its strategic footprint in the South Caucasus, signing agreements with Azerbaijan and Georgia in recent months designed to expand East-West trade via the Middle Corridor.

China’s economic cooperation with Southeast Asia predates the BRI and extends far beyond it, with Beijing being the region’s top trade partner since 2009 and its second-largest investor last year.

WSJ explores the ambition behind the $6 billion project—part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—and the economic implications for the region. Photo: Jiang Wenyao/Zuma Press A decade after ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sometimes referred ... has sought to knit together its strategic relationships in the region, most recently via the 2022 Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.

(MENAFN- Asia Times) The South Caucasus, with Azerbaijan at its heart, serves as a crucial energy corridor and a buffer zone between Russia and the Middle East. So when Azerbaijan and China signed ...

According to the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route Association, cargo shipments across Central Asia and the Caucasus ... extensively about China's Belt and Road Initiative and Beijing ...

As China marks the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road ... in the region to assert their vision is to promote the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, a development initiative created ...

Since its conception in 2013, the BRI has seen $1 trillion worth of investments poured into projects in nearly every region of ... period since the initiative was launched. China's economic ...

China has rolled out its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Pacific region after securing the support of at least ten nations. The BRI expansion in the Pacific has inflamed geopolitical rivalries ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formalized his country’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or New Silk Road, a sprawling geoeconomic development project that already includes ...

China and Colombia have increased economic cooperation in the past few years, most recently forming a working group to discuss joining the Belt and Road Initiative in October 2024.