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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 Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Aug 12, 2020, to head for Italy's Milan. [Photo/Xinhua] 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, transport...

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 percent. They carried 317,000 containers, up 79 percent year-on-year, according to the China State Railway...

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 crackdown—many of the first victims who testified on the world stage were ethnic Kazakhs who had witnessed...

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 the region. Despite geoeconomics logistics priorities and an increased geopolitical interest in the Ca...

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 impact on the environment, demands, costs, and local sentiments. Ironically, the report also included...