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China builds 1,000 schools in Iraq
China and Iraq have signed an agreement about the construction of 1,000 new schools by two Chinese contractors in the Middle Eastern state. Construction company Power Construction Corporation of China (Powerchina) is to build 679 of the schools, with the rest to be built by Sino Tech, according to the South China Morning Post. The […] continue reading →
Malacca: China’s Suez Problem
The debacle over the grounded container ship in the Suez Canal has once again shown Beijing how risky it is to become too dependent on a transport route with a bottleneck. For China, that is even more so the 900-kilometer-long Strait of Malacca near Singapore, which measures only 2.7 kilometers at its narrowest point. Most of China's raw materials have to pass through this strait. That is why China has been trying for years to build alternative supply routes as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. These are mainly pipelines. continue reading →