One Belt One Road

America should seize China’s U.S.-based assets and remove its sovereign immunity as compensation for the coronavirus, advised Steve Mosher.

Xi Jinping flexed his soft power muscles during a play to bring Greece closer to China’s sphere of influence, when he called for the British Museum to return ancient artworks to Athens.

Japan is working on expanding its economic presence in Africa to counter China’s growing clout, urging its companies on Tuesday to work with startups on the continent.

Donald Trump’s considered acquisition of Greenland is intended to block China’s efforts to “get a foothold” on the island, said Tammy Bruce.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper warned in a column published Wednesday that the “dysfunctional” state of the modern world, spearheaded by the unorthodox diplomacy of President Donald Trump, will lead to the creation of a world where all nations “will need China.”

China may use its economic presence in Zimbabwe to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a lawmaker from the African nation warned on Thursday.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns countries around the world to avoid joining the “Belt and Road” initiative because “China is playing a zero-sum game internationally and willing to win at all costs.”

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told Breitbart News and other media outlets during a lengthy interview in his office last week that President Donald Trump’s administration’s backing of Taiwan has been “unprecedented.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi previewed the third annual Belt and Road Forum by defending China’s infrastructure plan as a constructive program, rather than the string of debt traps depicted in U.S. criticism. He prodded the U.S. to stop interfering with Belt and Road by persuading prospective members to back away from the project.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is speaking out about Italy’s reported willingness to sign onto the People’s Republic of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, telling Breitbart News that reports of the Italians’ openness to joining the Communist Party of China program is “stunningly naive.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News exclusively that China’s intense international push for global dominance is the biggest threat that America has ever faced, even more substantial than the one that the Soviet Union posed in the 20th century during the Cold War.

Somali fishing communities have expressed concerns that a “debt trap diplomacy”-linked deal between their government and China has granted Beijing a license to exploit their livelihoods legally, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported this week.

Pakistan on Thursday vehemently dismissed news reports that China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which Beijing repeatedly defends as peaceful, took a military turn in the country.

Former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) told Breitbart News that China uses technology and finance as tools to globally project its communist ideology.

The Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa, told Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday that his country will “push forward the construction of the Belt and Road” in Europe, China’s plan to control all of the world’s most important transportation hubs.

Prior to landing in Madrid on Tuesday, Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping published a Spanish-language editorial proclaiming that Spain had been a key stop on the ancient Silk Road “more than 2,000 years ago.”

Contents: Maldives can’t determine how much money it owes to China; Constitutional crisis continues in Sri Lanka over China-India competition

China’s massive Belt and Road infrastructure initiative (BRI) appears to be running low on both government and private funds, according to a study published on Wednesday by the American Enterprise Institute.

Cuba’s second-in-command, “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel agreed to participate in China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative during talks with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Thursday.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed in Beijing, China, on Thursday, the first such visit by a Japanese head of government since 2011. Reports indicate that the two countries expect to sign dozens of memoranda of understanding, particular on trade, where China has worked to convince Japan to join its Belt and Road Initiative.

Multiple Chinese government media outlets used their opinion pages Sunday and Monday to attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for warning Latin American countries to stay away from Beijing’s predatory loan offers, calling American concerns “malicious nonsense.”

A report commissioned by Ecuador’s Prosecutor General revealed this weekend the country may have lost up to $2 billion in oil deals under the socialist government of ex-president Rafael Correa. Deals with the state-owned PetroChina gave Correa billions in credit while allegedly hurting the Ecuadorian government’s profits.

The government of Malaysia confirmed on Thursday the release of 11 Uighur refugees who entered the country illegally after breaking out of a Thai immigrant detention center, allowing them to travel to Turkey as they had requested.

U.S. President Donald Trump recently signed a bill into law to revamp America’s investment efforts in Africa to counter what the United States considers to be “predatory” economic practices across the continent at the hands of China, a move that is expected to benefit countries in the region, the Daily Nation from Kenya reported Monday.

The official publication of China’s Communist Party, the People’s Daily, published a video Tuesday promoting its One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative featuring a cartoon panda named “Pan Pan,” heavily quoting communist party leader Xi Jinping and claiming the plan will enrich the world through “common development.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, representing Communist Party leader Xi Jinping at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, used his time to urge “win-win cooperation,” promote the sprawling One Belt, One Road (OBOR) debt trap project, and generally avoid confrontation with the United States.

As doubts grow over China’s vast “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it says will not saddle countries with debt they cannot repay.

Pakistan urged its ally China this week to take steps against the alleged human rights abuses and repression of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, marking one of the first public criticisms from a predominantly Muslim country of Beijing’s policy in the province.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper boasted of Beijing’s expanded presence in Venezuela on Sunday, noting that the “U.S. is skeptical for geopolitical reasons” of growing ties between socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.

Contents: Zambia denies defaulting on infrastructure loans from China; Zambia faces long term corruption concerns

Kenyan police arrested a Chinese motorcycle dealer operating in the country this week after an employee recorded the man berating his native Kenyan employees, calling them “monkey people” and referring to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as a “monkey.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford told reporters during a visit to Greece Tuesday that the Pentagon is considering expanding its cooperation with Athens and its general presence in the country, citing easier access to battle theaters in Libya and Syria.

China is reportedly increasing access to Spanish and Portuguese language study to better expand its footprint across Latin America, The Guardian revealed in a report Sunday.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed an agreement on Monday for further Greek cooperation with China’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure plan, the latest step in the debt-driven courtship between Athens and Beijing.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper declared in a column Tuesday that the future of world construction will be in China’s hands after the world embraces “One Belt, One Road,” (OBOR), the communist dictatorship’s sprawling infrastructure project threating to send the developing world into insurmountable debt.

China’s state-run Global Times published a vocal defense of the nation’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure plan on Tuesday, insisting the predatory loans it offers to developing nations come “with no political strings attached” and that those who warn China is attempting to colonize poorer countries have their own “ulterior motives.”

The Chinese government made its move this week to find a place in the Turkish economy amid the lira currency’s ongoing downfall.

Contents: Chinese workers in Pakistan injured in terrorist bombing; War of words grows over IMF funding for Pakistan’s debt

China’s communist head of state, Xi Jinping, arrived on Monday in Rwanda, the third leg of his Middle East and Africa tour to sell the nation’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) infrastructure program amid claims China is using the initiative to recolonize Africa.