New Silk Road

China may use its economic presence in Zimbabwe to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a lawmaker from the African nation warned on Thursday.

As doubts grow over China’s vast “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it says will not saddle countries with debt they cannot repay.

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, talked about China’s long-running trade war against the United States with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Frances Martel on Friday’s Breitbart News Tonight.

The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday that Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are considering an alliance to counter China’s growing influence – in particular, the huge “Belt and Road” trade project undertaken by China.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani met with Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao in Bangkok on Sunday, and according to China’s state-run Xinhua press agency, the meeting was a big success.

Contents: Iran and India sign ‘historic’ deal for Iran’s Chabahar port; Chabahar port deal highlights enmity between Iran-India versus Pakistan-China; Iran, India and the classic fables of Kalileh-wa-Dimneh, Jataka and Panchatantra; The Caspian Corridor and the New Silk Road

Contents: More on China’s New Silk Road through the ‘Caspian Trade Corridor’; China and Cambodia hold military exercises amid South China Sea tensions

Contents: Azerbaijan forced to choose between Russia and Turkey; Azerbaijan becomes the hub of the Caspian Trade Corridor, part of the new Silk Road