NAIROBI: Chinese lenders approved loans worth $4.61 billion to Africa last year, marking the first annual increase since 2016, an independent study showed on Thursday. Africa secured more than $10 billion in loans a year from China between 2012-2018, thanks to President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but the lending fell precipitously from … Read more
During the 1971 war, Pakistan attempted to destroy the intellectual backbone of Bangladesh by killing its intellectuals. Today, China, an ally of Pakistan at that time, is aiming to destroy the conscience of the country’s youth, casting a dark shadow over Bangladesh’s future. While Islamabad used bullets and bombs for its purposes, supported by traitors … Read more
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal remains a non-starter despite recent assertion by the Himalayan state’s deputy prime minister that the two countries will “very soon” sign a plan to implement the ambitious infrastructure programme. Nepal and China signed a memorandum of understanding on BRI in 2017. Nearly seven years since, not a … Read more
