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You have a bank willing to extend a loan to you?

You need collateral in the form of an SBLC or a Bank Guarantee to back up a loan? This collateral service is available to any qualified clients with a business of substance. If you have an established business and you want to start a project and require a loan for this business, then you will […]

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China and Latin America: A pragmatic embrace

Ted Piccone July 2020 Ted Piccone examines the tightening embrace between China and the Latin American and Caribbean region. He highlights how China has emerged as a heavyweight in trade and investment and the implications for the region’s infrastructure and energy systems, as well as for its politics. China’s growing involvement in the region also […]

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Testing the limits of China and Brazil’s partnership

Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas explores the relationship between Brazil and China, which is largely grounded in trade and investment. Brazil trades nearly twice as much with China as with the United States, a gap that has been widening as a result of trade diversion resulting from the U.S.-China trade war. Brazil and China also have […]

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China’s Indian Ocean ambitions

Investment, influence, and military advantage, a report by Joshua T. White, Nonresident Fellow – Foreign Policy Joshua T. White documents China’s expanding engagements in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). He concludes that even though present-day Chinese power projection capabilities in the IOR remain modest, China appears to be pursuing capabilities that would enable it to […]

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Madiha Afzal, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy “At all costs”: How Pakistan and China control the narrative on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Madiha Afzal focuses on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), arguing that the Chinese and Pakistani governments have aggressively controlled the narrative on […]