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China-Europe freight train service thriving during pandemic By LUO WANGSHU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-14 08:49 Share CLOSE A China-Europe freight train with 45 compartments of anti-epidemic supplies leaves the Xinzhu Railway Station in Xian, Northwest Chinas Shaanxi province, on Aug 12, 2020, to head for Italys Milan. [Photo/Xinhua] Although the global logistics market has been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic since las...

Source： 2021-04-14 16:34 Although the global logistics market has been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic since last year, the freight train service between China and Europe has shown strong resilience, transporting epidemic control materials and daily supplies and injecting vitality into the global economy. The latest data showed that from January to March, 3,345 freight train trips were conducted between China and Europe, a year-on-year increase of 70 percen...

Has Kazakhstan Failed Xinjiang’s Ethnic Kazakhs? The Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Kazakhstan. (Ninara, https://flic.kr/p/dFScYU; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) China’s brutal repression campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, labeled a genocide by the United States, has also implicated the region’s nearly 1.6 million ethnic Kazakhs. Kazakhstan, which shares a long border with Xinjiang, was an epicenter of activism in the early months and years of the crackdow...

Modern Diplomacy Published 3 weeks ago foreign policy has exposed China’s Belt and Road narrative as both politically and economically thin. As access narratives across crucial chokepoints for China’s Belt and Road intensified in 2020, China’s foreign policy in the South Caucasus remains ill-defined. While 2020 saw instability across key Belt and Road chokepoints Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus China has been exposed as having little political risk architecture with which to engage th...

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese BRI projects On Kindly Share This Story: China recently published a report titled `Belt and Road Infrastructure Development Index (BRIDI) 2020’ jointly brought out by the China International Contractors Association, the country’s organization of overseas industrial contractors, and the China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE). The report analyses the BRI’s momentum and scope of work in 71 countries from various perspectives including i...

The Dubai tycoon with ambitions for Haifa Port DP World chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem sees Israel becoming a world-class logistics center, and his vision doesnt stop there. For port and logistics giant DP World of Dubai, its bid to acquire the Haifa Port Company is just the beginning in a series of possible projects in Israel, says group chairman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in an interview with "Globes". Speaking from his home in Dubai, bin Sulayem reveals that his group may be offerin...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Why a Silk Road Travelogue Is Taking China by Storm Despite China’s massive investment in Central Asia, the region remains an enigma to most ordinary Chinese. But a hit new book aims to change that. Like many in China, Liu Zichao used to consider Central Asia a strange and mysterious land.  The former journalist recalls being on an assignment in the western Chinese city of Khorgos in 2010 and a local truck driver telling him that on the other side of the snow-capped mou...

At 10:19 on the 21st, the first Wuyishan “international freight train” departed at the Wuyishan land port. The first train departs from Wuyi ...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Why a Silk Road Travelogue Is Taking China by Storm Despite China’s massive investment in Central Asia, the region remains an enigma to most ordinary Chinese. But a hit new book aims to change that. Like many in China, Liu Zichao used to consider Central Asia a strange and mysterious land.  The former journalist recalls being on an assignment in the western Chinese city of Khorgos in 2010 and a local truck driver telling him that on the other side of the snow-capped mou...

Deeper democracy in Kazakhstan will strengthen bond with India: Envoy ​ Wed, Jan 13 2021 16:51 IST | ​ 0 Views Deeper democracy in Kazakhstan will strengthen bond with India: Envoy (IANS Special) Image Source: IANS News Kazakhstan is Indias biggest economic partner in Central Asia and a crucial strategic partner. In an interview with IANS, Kazakhstans Ambassador to India, Yerlan Alimbayev, explains the significance of the recently-held parliamentary elections and Image Source: IANS News D...