Belt and Road Initiative

China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Maldives versus India

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• Bhutan
• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Maldives versus India

Scribbler January 26, 2025

Tall order. After perusing a 4,100-word overview of totalitarian China’s incursions and partnerships in the vicinity of...

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China’s New Deal With Sri Lanka Should Worry India and Everybody Else

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• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Economics

China’s New Deal With Sri Lanka Should Worry India and Everybody Else

Scribbler January 19, 2025

Sri Lanka isn’t a tipping point. It is not the one little country that China needs in...

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Indonesia and China Clash in the Natuna Sea

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• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Economics

Indonesia and China Clash in the Natuna Sea

Monkton November 5, 2024

An Indonesian exploratory mission in the Natuna Sea was recently and repeatedly interrupted when a Chinese Coast...

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Erik Solheim, Former UN Official and Current Propagandist for China

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• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Human Rights

Erik Solheim, Former UN Official and Current Propagandist for China

Scribbler October 17, 2024

If you’re going to write a politically oriented op-ed about what is going on in the Xinjiang...

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Nigeria Is Getting Burned by Its Association With China

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• Africa
• Central Planning
• China

Nigeria Is Getting Burned by Its Association With China

Scribbler August 19, 2024

The Nigerian government says that a Chinese company, which may in effect mean the Chinese government, is...

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Is America Being Belted by Belt and Road?

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• China
• Diplomacy
• Economics

Is America Being Belted by Belt and Road?

James Roth July 4, 2024

By 2023, Communist China, South America’s top trading partner, had scored free trade agreements “with Chile, Costa...

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Why Islamic Governments Condemn Persecution of Muslims Everywhere but China

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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Diplomacy
• Human Rights

Why Islamic Governments Condemn Persecution of Muslims Everywhere but China

Scribbler May 20, 2024

China bribes them to remain silent. What’s happening, in part, is that “the countries of the Islamic...

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The Global Trawling Armies of China’s Fishing Expeditions

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• Africa
• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

The Global Trawling Armies of China’s Fishing Expeditions

Scribbler May 4, 2024

A few years ago, a giant freighter called the Ever Given, which was “most of the width...

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The Failure and Success of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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• China
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Diplomacy

The Failure and Success of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

James Roth March 28, 2024

When China’s Belt and Road Initiative reached its tenth anniversary last year, the headlines were harsh: “China...

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