Brussels is investigating a showcase Chinese rail project that aims to extend Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” initiative into the heart of Europe, potentially putting the European Commission at loggerheads with China. Sample the FT’s top stories for a week You select the topic, we deliver the news. Select topic Enter email addressInvalid email Sign up By signing up you confirm that you have read and agree to the terms and conditions, cookie policy and privacy policy. The commission’s probe is into a planned 350km high-speed railway between Serbia’s capital Belgrade and Budapest in Hungary. The railway is billed as a hallmark scheme under “One Belt One Road”, a $900bn project championed by Xi Jinping, China’s president, to build infrastructure and win diplomatic friends in Europe, Asia and Africa. (FT)
Shipping seafood along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Why China Can’t Ignore Syria’s Rebel Factions
Beijing might prefer to deal with Assad, but major oil resources are held by rebel groups. (The Diplomat)
China's grain heartland deepens cooperation with Silk Road countries
Shipping seafood along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
In January of this year, residents of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were able to enjoy their first ever taste of seafood imported from Pakistan by container trucks through the Khunjerab Pass. The successful trial is expected to improve overland trade between China and Pakistan via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, ,which currently accounts for 2 percent of the overall trade between the two countries. (Global Times)
China Accounts for 80% of Syria's Foreign Trade - Syrian Ambassador to China
China is Syria's largest trade partner, accounting for about 80 percent of the country's foreign trade, Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to China, told Sputnik. "China was our first trade partner before crisis in Syria. Now because of the almost non-existing trade relations between us and the West, China's role has become even larger and larger. (Sputnik)
China Accounts for 80% of Syria's Foreign Trade - Syrian Ambassador to China
China is Syria's largest trade partner, accounting for about 80 percent of the country's foreign trade, Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to China, told Sputnik. "China was our first trade partner before crisis in Syria. Now because of the almost non-existing trade relations between us and the West, China's role has become even larger and larger. (Sputnik)
Why China Can’t Ignore Syria’s Rebel Factions
China's grain heartland deepens cooperation with Silk Road countries
Duan Lin manages vast swathes of farmland in Central China's Henan province. Next week, the agricultural specialist will fly to Tajikistan to inspect 1,600 hectares of farmland he runs there. Duan comes from a family of agricultural businessmen. His grandfather, Duan Shouming, was among the first generation of farmers who came in 1956 to develop the so-called Huangfanqu, a barren and salty plain formed after massive flooding of the Yellow River in the 1930s and 1940s. (China Daily)
Berlin uneasy about Beijing’s growing clout in eastern, southern Europe
Germany is concerned about the growing influence of China in eastern and southern Europe, German ambassador to China Michael Clauss said in an exclusive interview.“In our view, setting up parallel networks such as China and eastern Europe or China and southern Europe are somewhat inconsistent with a commitment to a coherent and strong EU,” Clauss said this week. (Scmp)
Chengdu to run 1,000 cargo trains to Europe in 2017
Berlin uneasy about Beijing’s growing clout in eastern, southern Europe
Chengdu to run 1,000 cargo trains to Europe in 2017
Southwestern China's city of Chengdu is expected to run 1,000 cargo trains to Europe in 2017, more
than double the number last year, the Chengdu International Railway Services Company said Monday.Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, ran 460 cargo trains to cities in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany last year -- more than any other Chinese city. By June 2016, trains had made nearly 2,000 trips between 25 Chinese cities and Europe, with a total import and export value of 17 billion U.S. dollars. (Xinhua)
Experts from Uzbekistan on construction of China — Kyrgyzstan — Uzbekistan railroad arrive in Kyrgyzstan for first time
For Xinjiang’s Uyghurs, ‘Hashar’ by any other name still means forced labour
Experts from Uzbekistan on construction of the China — Kyrgyzstan — Uzbekistan railroad arrived in Kyrgyzstan for the first time, said Minister of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan Jamshitbek Kalilov today at a press conference in Bishkek (Akipress)
China holds 'anti-terrorism' mass rally in Xinjiang's Uighur heartland
The government of the restive far-western Xinjiang marched thousands of armed officers through the region's southern city of Hotan in a shock and awe campaign against what it says is the rising threat of terrorism and ethnic separatism. The large-scale parade in Hotan, a hotspot of ethnic tension in Xinjiang's southern Muslim Uighur heartland, involved thousands of armed police and paramilitary officers and was designed to "show strength and intimidate", according to a front-page report in the official Xinjiang Daily on Friday.(Reuters)
China holds 'anti-terrorism' mass rally in Xinjiang's Uighur heartland
The government of the restive far-western Xinjiang marched thousands of armed officers through the region's southern city of Hotan in a shock and awe campaign against what it says is the rising threat of terrorism and ethnic separatism. The large-scale parade in Hotan, a hotspot of ethnic tension in Xinjiang's southern Muslim Uighur heartland, involved thousands of armed police and paramilitary officers and was designed to "show strength and intimidate", according to a front-page report in the official Xinjiang Daily on Friday.(Reuters)
For Xinjiang’s Uyghurs, ‘Hashar’ by any other name still means forced labour
While Chinese officials in the Xinjiang region insist that they no longer compel Uyghurs to supply free labour for public works projects, in reality they have only changed the name of the practice, RFA’s Uyghur Service has learned. “The hashar is abolished, and the farmers are being informed about it in village after village,” a Chinese official in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Guma county’s civil affairs office told RFA in a recent interview. Hashar is the Uyghur term for compulsory labour in fields and roads, and Uyghur and other human rights activists view the practice as a means to repress the Muslim Uyghurs. (RFA)
CENTRAL ASIA
Little-Known Turkmenistan About to Become Known for Its Big Problems
No post-Soviet republic is so little known beyond its borders as Turkmenistan. This relative obscurity internationally is the result of three legacies: its poverty in Soviet times; its relatively tiny cohort of intellectuals who might have called attention to the country; and perhaps most importantly, Turkmenistan’s lack of a unified national identity, a feature that has led many scholars to call it “ ‘a nation’ of tribes”. Nonetheless, there are five obvious causes for concern and perhaps even alarm when it comes to this reclusive Central Asian republic. (Jamestown Foundation)
Central Asians See NATO More as Threat than Protection
Central Asians are more likely to see NATO as a threat rather than as a source of protection, according to a new survey. The survey, by the American firm Gallup, polled residents of all the ex-Soviet republics except for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All of the Central Asian states saw NATO as more of a threat than as protection. Tajikistan was the most anti-NATO state, with 34 percent seeing it as a threat and eight percent as protection. Next is Kyrgyzstan, at 19 percent protection and 30 percent threat; then Kazakhstan, 25 percent protection and 31 percent threat. (Erasianet)
CENTRAL ASIA
Little-Known Turkmenistan About to Become Known for Its Big Problems
No post-Soviet republic is so little known beyond its borders as Turkmenistan. This relative obscurity internationally is the result of three legacies: its poverty in Soviet times; its relatively tiny cohort of intellectuals who might have called attention to the country; and perhaps most importantly, Turkmenistan’s lack of a unified national identity, a feature that has led many scholars to call it “ ‘a nation’ of tribes”. Nonetheless, there are five obvious causes for concern and perhaps even alarm when it comes to this reclusive Central Asian republic. (Jamestown Foundation)
Central Asians See NATO More as Threat than Protection
Central Asians are more likely to see NATO as a threat rather than as a source of protection, according to a new survey. The survey, by the American firm Gallup, polled residents of all the ex-Soviet republics except for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All of the Central Asian states saw NATO as more of a threat than as protection. Tajikistan was the most anti-NATO state, with 34 percent seeing it as a threat and eight percent as protection. Next is Kyrgyzstan, at 19 percent protection and 30 percent threat; then Kazakhstan, 25 percent protection and 31 percent threat. (Erasianet)
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