China’s massive Belt and Road initiative builds global infrastructure — and influence China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most expensive infrastructure project in history. Chinese ...

The Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya has become a case study in some of the problems China’s Belt and Road Initiative can create. WSJ’s George Downs explains. Illustration ...

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WSJ explores the ambition behind the $6 billion project—part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—and the economic implications for the region. Photo: Jiang Wenyao/Zuma Press Breaking Ground ...

ISLAMABAD -- The Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan marks its tenth anniversary on Sunday with analysts and even some officials noting its slow progress and unmet goals because of security ...

Italy’s conservative government, led by Giorgia Meloni, faces a key decision: whether or not to renew Rome’s memorandum of understanding with China regarding the Belt and Road Initiative.

During his time in Damascus last July, Wang extended the invite to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to join the Belt and Road. Syria’s membership in the project comes against a backdrop of ...

Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative has not proved to be the ‘transformation game changer’ many in the region were hoping for, analysts say – as concerns grow about some projects ...