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By Laura Zhou

When Chinese President Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for five regional leaders at the first China-Central Asia summit last month, the event was replete with historic symbols of the Silk Road.
Billed as the country’s “first major diplomatic event” of the year, the summit was h...

By Jevans Nyabiage

When Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki visited Beijing last month, President Xi Jinping was there to greet him with a guard of honour, a 21-gun salute and a welcome banquet at the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People.
It was a sharp contrast to the United States in Dec...

By Yang Sheng

Italy cherishes its ties with China, as the prime minister of the country has tried to preserve friendly and cooperative relations with China while bilateral cooperation under the framework of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being disrupted by US pressure. Chinese analysts said on...

The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo kicked off on Thursday in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, where representatives from 53 African countries and 12 international organizations gathered to further boost bilateral cooperation, with deals worth $19.1 billion expected to be signed....

By Rhod Mackenzie

The amount of investments in the project to create a lithium complex of Rosatom in Bolivia will be approximately $600 million.

This was announced by the first deputy head of the state corporation Kirill Komarov. “For Rosatom, this is the first large-scale foreign project in th...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The sale of so-called panda bonds, ie. bonds of foreign issuers denominated in yuan and placed on the domestic market of mainland China has reached a record amount equivalent to $10.4 billion this year, according to Bloomberg. The record is due to several reasons. The main one is...