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Will the Yuan Replace the Dollar?

Commentary With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) now allowing countries to pay dollar-denominated debt in the Chinese yuan, what does that mean for the U.S. dollar? It’s no secret that both the Chinese and the Russians and many other countries want to downgrade the dollar’s influence and even de-dollarize global trade. That’s certainly happening, and…


Stack the Deck Against the CCP

Commentary China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ill-defined international development program that includes export activities and political influence operations by the regime in Beijing. With a reported $1 trillion of spending, which could eventually become $8 trillion, BRI has hit major speed bumps of late. Italy, which is the only G-7 country involved…


US Needs to Offer World Alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Experts Say

The U.S. government needs to offer the world an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) beyond a “don’t work with China” approach, experts say. It has been about a decade since Beijing announced the BRI, previously named the One Belt, One Road Initiative. This initiative builds and finances infrastructure, transportation, technology, and energy…


LIVE 11 AM ET: Increasing US Engagement in the Pacific with Special Envoy Joseph Yun: A Hudson Institute Event

Ambassador Joseph Yun, the special presidential envoy for compact negotiations and leading re-negotiator of agreements with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, discusses with Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin the concerns of these states regarding the influence that China’s Belt and Road Initiative imposed…


LIVE NOW: Increasing US Engagement in the Pacific with Special Envoy Joseph Yun: A Hudson Institute Event

Ambassador Joseph Yun, the special presidential envoy for compact negotiations and leading re-negotiator of agreements with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, discusses with Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin the concerns of these states regarding the influence that China’s Belt and Road Initiative imposed…


Increasing US Engagement in the Pacific with Special Envoy Joseph Yun: A Hudson Institute Event

Ambassador Joseph Yun, the special presidential envoy for compact negotiations and leading re-negotiator of agreements with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, discusses with Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin the concerns of these states regarding the influence that China’s Belt and Road Initiative imposed…


The Belt and Road Initiative Hits a Pothole

Commentary Initially proclaimed as the economic marvel that would create massive global infrastructure and growth, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has encountered significant problems in recent years that have created doubt over its impact. The BRI was launched by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2013 when he pushed for a “Silk Road Economic Belt,”…


China Spent $240 Billion Bailing Out ‘Belt and Road’ Countries, Study Shows

China spent $240 billion in bailing out 22 participating countries of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by the end of 2021, a new study shows. The study published on Tuesday by AidData, a research lab at William & Mary, a public university in Virginia, notes the significant scale of China’s cross-border rescue lending: it says…


LIVE NOW: Countering CCP Hegemony: Xi’s Belt and Road Gambit and Mongolia’s Fight to Be Free–Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party plans dominate the world with its colonial infrastructure build-out program: Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). To date, over 140 nations have yielded to the seductive debt-trap financing, bribes, or coercive inducements Beijing employs, including Mongolia. In the forum at 1:00 p.m. on Jan. 26, held by the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee…


Countering CCP Hegemony: Xi’s Belt and Road Gambit and Mongolia’s Fight to Be Free–Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party plans dominate the world with its colonial infrastructure build-out program: Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). To date, over 140 nations have yielded to the seductive debt-trap financing, bribes, or coercive inducements Beijing employs, including Mongolia. In the forum at 1:00 p.m. on Jan. 26, held by the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee…