development in Sri Lanka – Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairsreport in The Island, May 31, 2023Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sun Weidong who called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees on Tuesday (May 30) assured that China will increase investments in several areas such as agriculture, trade and commerce, ports and infrastructure development in Sri Lanka. He also said China will continue to provide economic assistance as well as support…
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by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, May 30, 2023China now appears to be quite active in trying to make the Rohingya repatriation a reality. Some high-profile visits have been made over the last few months. Chinese Special Envoy on Myanmar Deng Xijun visited Dhaka on April 6 and met Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong’s visit ended on Sunday. Weidong met the prime minister. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, May 24, 2023 at 9:02 PMDirect flights between Afghanistan and China resumed on Wednesday morning after three years–with Ariana Afghan Airlines conducting the first flight to Urumqi. Speaking at the ceremony of the first flight of Ariana airlines to Urumqi, Ghulam Jailani Wafa, deputy minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (MTCA), said that these flights will have a direct impact on the growth of the country’s economy and will…
Report in TOLOnews Online, May 23, 2023 at 8:58 PMThe Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) said that China and other countries are interested in investing in Afghanistan’s lithium resources. The majority of Afghanistan’s lithium is known to be in the provinces of Kunar, Nuristan, and Helmand, according to Homayoun Afghan, the ministry’s spokesman. “A number of countries and investors have expressed interest in the lithium business in addition to the Chinese. The Chinese even…
Report in TOLOnews, May 22, 2023 at 4:10 PMThe Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said that China and Qatar are interested in investing in the oil and gas sector in the country. Homyaoon Afghan, a spokesman for the MoMP, said that representatives of these two countries have met four times with the acting Ministry of Mines and Petroleum regarding oil extraction in the past month. “We have had four meetings with Qatari and Chines investors,…
by Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, May 23, 2023Sri Lanka yesterday signed a long-term contract with Sinopec Fuel Oil Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., to import, store, distribute, and sell petroleum products, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The PMD said the contract was signed at the Presidential Secretariat and that the agreement was reached following the recommendations of a Cabinet-appointed special committee. Sinopec Fuel Oil Lanka is a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec),…
report in Daily FT, 20 May 2023Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in China Dr. Palitha Kohona attended the Belt and Road International Tea Trading Forum in Hefeng County, Hubei Province as a guest speaker. Hubei has over 700,000 hectares of immaculately tended tea gardens. Addressing the gathering of tea experts (including many academics), senior government and party officials, tea traders and diplomats, Ambassador Kohona, as an invited guest speaker, underlined the continuing significance of the tea industry…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, May 19, 2023 at 8:43 PMThe Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to help the people of Afghanistan to maintain stability and realize peace. Jinping made the remarks at the China-Central Asia Summit. China will “continue to help the Afghan people maintain security and stability and realize peace and reconstruction. We will work together to build a Central Asia that features no conflict,” he said. This comes as Pakistan Prime Minister…
by Dewey Sim in SCMP, May 19, 2023*Expansion of US$60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor into Afghanistan ‘a win’ for the war-torn country, but China’s yields less certain**Observers said Beijing will be hoping to reduce instability in the region while building its influence When China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang met his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Mutaqi earlier this month, he spoke of the two nations as “traditionally friendly neighbours connected by mountains and rivers”. China would…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 17, 2023China has been actively managing Afghanistan’s foreign relations as a guarantee to help Afghanistan escape its current state of isolation on the world stage. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari of Pakistan and Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of Taliban, last week in Islamabad to hold talks as part of a China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Minister’s Dialogue. Afghanistan’s stability…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 17, 2023For six years of the signing of the Belt and Road Initiative with Nepal, China had nothing to show for a real project. That changed with the inauguration of Pokhara International Airport earlier this year when Beijing made a unilateral announcement to keep the airport built with Chinese aid under the BRI framework. Nepal and China signed a memorandum of understanding on One Belt One Road…