The $5.9 billion railway, an impressive feat of Chinese engineering, is set to tie Laos ever closer to its northern neighbor. The railway projects being built under the Belt and Road Initiative ...

Chinese construction and engineering contractors working as part of the country's Belt and Road initiative face greater challenges in democratic countries, a study shows. The findings are ...

The Houthis have deftly leveraged Yemen’s economic vacuum ... A sustained disruption threatens not only Western-linked supply ...

With U.S. aid diminished, it seems unlikely that China will fill the gap. Beijing favors investments in infrastructure over civil society. While free trade has become politically infeasible in ...