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Cina Australia
The digital side of the Belt and Road Initiative is growing
ONE TROPICAL evening in November, the 9,800-tonne Ile de Bréhat slipped from the quay at Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, and steamed out of Iron Bottom Sound. For weeks the boat had been a familiar sight as it finished its job of laying 4,700km of fibre-optic cable from Sydney ...
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Cina India Pakistan
Chinese investment in Eurasia is not always smooth
IF ANYWHERE ALONG the belt and road should be benefiting from Chinese largesse, it is Pakistan. The country counts as China’s only real ally, as a partner on China’s vulnerable western flank and a balancer against India. China gave Pakistani scientists the know-how and materials to build a nuclear ...
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Cina Kazakistan
China’s flagship foreign policy aims to put itself at the centre of the world once again
ON CHINA’S BORDER with Kazakhstan, a new Silk Road city has sprung up with such speed that Google Earth has scarcely begun to record the high-rises that now float on a winter mist above the steppe. What once would have been flattered to be called a hard-scrabble border town is ...
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Cina
China is making substantial investment in ports and pipelines worldwide
NO CHINESE REFERENCE to the maritime Silk Road is complete without mention of the voyages of Zheng He. The eunuch admiral, a Muslim at the Ming court, led seven voyages in the early 15th century in a fleet of vast sailing barges known as “treasure ships”. The official narrative is ...
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Cina USA Kazakistan
Will China sit again at the heart of its own cosmos?
BACK in KHORGOS one winter’s morning, a press of shopworkers—members of the ethnic Han majority, along with Kazakhs and Uighurs—line up in front of border officials to enter the duty-free mall shared with Kazakhstan. Four city officials from the propaganda department have got wind of this correspondent’s presence, and insist ...
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Portogallo
Easyjet ameaça terminar com ligações aéreas para a Madeira
A easyJet ameaçou esta quinta-feira interromper as ligações aéreas entre a Madeira e o continente, a partir de Lisboa e do Porto, depois de o parlamento ter aprovado a entrada em vigor do novo regime do subsídio de mobilidade.
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Portogallo
Casa do Vinho Verde inaugura residência artística com Agostinho Santos
A Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes lançou uma residência artística para a sua sede no Porto e vai abrir-se à comunidade com exposições de arte. Agostinho Santos é o primeiro artista residente e curador.
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Portogallo
Saúde Digital, um sistema de saúde para o século XXI
Portugal tem uma dimensão adequada para pilotar uma experiência de inovação e transformação digital no setor da saúde e para atrair investimento e capital intelectual para enfrentar uma das maiores inovações do seculo XXI.
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Portogallo
Vistos Gold de lata
Portugal mais uma vez se dobra perante terceiros, farto de receber estrangeiros com potencialidade de contribuir para a economia nacional. Isto quando ninguém demonstrou alguma perda no atual sistema.
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Cina Kenya
U.S. to Start Trade Talks With Kenya to Counter China’s Influence
A deal would have a limited impact on the American economy, but the Trump administration sees it as an important geopolitical move.