Category: Belt and Road

China in Focus (April 22): Overseas Chinese Eatery Surveilling Customers

Chinese surveillance appears in the West. A popular overseas Chinese restaurant is using security cameras to watch customers as they eat. The recorded footage then gets sent to Chinese authorities. A Chinese state-run media is expanding its reach across the globe. But one group is putting a stop to its ambitions. A sweeping bill that’s…


Faith Leaders, Businessmen, Political Leaders Call for African Development, Countering China’s Belt and Road

Former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has endorsed an effort to jumpstart the economies of Africa through a bottom-up revolution of African entrepreneurs. That revolution involves countering China’s efforts to dominate the continent while articulating a Christian approach to Africa’s development. Pompeo gave the keynote speech April 13 at a summit of CEOs and African…


Business, Political, and Faith Leaders Call for African Development, Countering China’s Belt and Road

Former U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is endorsing an effort to jumpstart the economies of Africa through a bottom-up revolution of African entrepreneurs. That revolution involves countering China’s efforts to dominate the continent while articulating a Christian approach to Africa’s development. Pompeo gave the keynote speech on April 13 at a summit of CEOs…


‘We Are Very Careful’: Australia’s Foreign Minister Defends Cancelling Belt and Road Deal

Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne has defended her decision to intervene and cancel the state of Victoria’s Belt and Road deals with Beijing after the Chinese embassy lashed out, labelling the move “unreasonable and provocative.” ABC AM host Sabra Lane told Payne she’d have to be naive to think Beijing won’t retaliate given the various tariffs…


Australia Tears Up Belt and Road Deals with Beijing

Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Marise Payne on Wednesday night officially tore up Victoria’s controversial Belt and Road (BRI) deals with Beijing, saying they were not consistent with the national interest. Payne exercised recently granted powers under Australia’s Foreign Relations Act to axe four deals in total, all between the Victorian state government and foreign regimes,…


CCP Has Taken Over Islamic Countries, Muslim Scholar Warns

WASHINGTON—The Chinese communist regime is committing genocide against Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region, yet Muslim countries still remain largely silent, as they have become colonies of China, according to an expert. Beijing has set its sight on Islamic countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, as they are crucial to its Belt and Road…


90 Percent of Australia’s Imported Solar Panels Are Made in China

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows ninety percent of all solar panels imported into Australia came directly from China during the first 9 months of the 2020 financial year. This cost Australia $1.1 billion (US$850 million), and from 2015 to 2020, Australia spent more than $5.3 billion (US$4 billion) on Chinese-made solar panels….


China Wants It All

Commentary The future of China is much greater than the digital dictatorship-driven, dystopian, prison camp of a nation that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has laid so heavily upon their people over the past couple of decades. The CCP has so much more in mind. After all, why enslave just one-fifth of the world when…


Biden Suggests to UK’s Johnson That Allies Should Have a Plan to Rival China’s Belt and Road

NEW CASTLE, Del.—U.S. President Joe Biden said he suggested to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call on Friday that democratic countries should have an infrastructure plan to rival China’s Belt and Road initiative. “I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative, pulling from the democratic states, helping those communities around the…


The Trade Group Driving China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia: Internal Documents

An overseas pro-Beijing organization is a driving force behind a decade-long infiltration into Australia, including promoting China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, internal documents reveal. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transcontinental investment project aimed at expanding China’s global influence through political, economic, or cultural cooperation, was first proposed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping…