On this podcast, Kiran Choudhry discusses the real examples of BRI projects pursued by the Beijing Technology Exchange and Promotion Center, the challenges related to facilitating BRI cooperation and the “how” of BRI projects.
Read MoreOn the occasion of releasing the "Belt and Road 101: Introduction for Businesses" Report, we bring to you this special episode in which we will provide you with 3 actionable steps strategy that will allow you to make your business profit from the Belt and Road Initiative.
Read MoreOn this podcast, Professor Dominik Mierzejewski discusses the significance of local level actors’ cooperation for the development of the Belt and Road Initative. He also shares his personal insights coming from the experience of developing Sino-Polish cooperation in the city of Lodz - an important Belt and Road hub located in Central Poland.
Read MoreOn this podcast, Jia Yu discusses what she learned as part of a team doing large scale investing in Africa from both a business and personal perspective. The colorful examples she discusses on the podcast highlight the importance of cultural understanding and the need for building the “soft” human infrastructure as well as the “hard” infrastructure components such as mining facilities, power generation plants and industrial parks.
Read MoreOn this podcast, world renowned China expert Kerry Brown discusses the meaning and purpose of the Belt and Road Initiative. Professor Brown highlights that China wants to communicate its story and the vision of the future through its chief foreign policy initiative. But communicating and understanding this complex Belt and Road story is far from easy.
Read MoreOn this podcast, Hannah Ryder - economist, diplomat, development expert - talks about the recent FOCAC Summit in Beijing, a complex relationship between China and African countries and challenges related to running effective development projects. Hannah highlights that African countries have much to gain from the Belt and Road Initiative, but they also have to know what they want.
Read MoreOn this podcast,Parag Khanna, best selling author of six books and one of the leading thought leaders on the topics of international trade, communications, urban development, discusses the Belt and Road initiative, China’s and Asia’s role in the future. Parag’s unique insights on the intersection of culture, technology, infrastructure, cities and geography make this podcast one not to be missed!
Read MoreOn this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project’s sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.
Before listening to the podcast, watch a 3-minute trailer of the upcoming “105 Nights” documentary about the expedition that Ankur took part in. Click here to see today’s Silk Road: https://vimeo.com/237607248.
Read MoreOn this podcast, Innoway’s Head of the Global Incubator, Tim Luan, discusses ZhongGuanCun and Innoway’s role in supporting entrepreneurs and innovation (both local and international) in China including what it takes to be successful as an entrepreneur in China.
Read MoreOn this podcast, Shada Islam, the Director of Europe and Geopolitics at Friends of Europe, an influential think tank based in Brussels, and a Professor at College of Europe, discusses Sino-European relations and the European Union's perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative.
Read MoreIn this podcast, Beijing-based commentator and professor Harvey Dzodin talks about how China is struggling with leveraging its soft power and offers plenty of examples and advice of how China could “win the hearts and minds” of the people of the various countries of the Belt and Road.
Read MoreIn this podcast, world renowned Law Scholar Don Lewis discusses some of the distinctive features of China’s legal system, what is meant by the Belt and Road Legal “Architecture,” including in relation to the Cyber/Digital Silk Road, and the resounding impacts which BRI is bringing to the world of international arbitration and dispute resolution generally, with special reference to the recent inauguration by the Supreme People’s Court of the China International Commercial Courts in Xi’an and Shenzhen – the Silk Road Courts.
Read MoreIn this podcast, Oyuna Baldakova - PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at the Free University of Berlin – discusses her research on the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia, particularly Kazakhstan. Oyuna has recently conducted her fieldwork in the country, and in the podcast gives granular insights on what’s happening on the ground.
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