Chinese Ambassador Reaffirms China’s Support for Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal Project (Video inside) on 19 April 2025:🇨🇳🇰🇭 en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/en/l….

The completion of the Funan Techo Canal under China's BRI will greatly reduce Cambodia's transportation and logistics costs, as suggested by the peer-reviewed study. #FunanTechoCanal #TradeCosts #BRI #Logistics #ASEAN #Infrastructure #Transportation🇰🇭doi.org/10.1371/journa…

🇨🇳China is home to the world's largest e-commerce market, with its online retail sales outpacing the rest of world. #FactsMatter

If western capitalism was converging toward Chinese standards the US would be doing a major multi-decade infrastructure binge right now to help promote production efficiency factors. You’re imitating a hologram of what you think China is, not what China has actually been doing.

The BRI is complex. Let’s move beyond myths. "The Discordant ‘Debt Trap’ and ‘Secrecy’ Narratives on the Belt and Road Initiative": #PeerReviewedResearch, #BeltandRoadInitiative, #BRI, #SilkRoad, #DebtTrapDebunked, #USChina, #WesternMediaBias, : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Long-Run Effects of Trade Wars nber.org/papers/w33702

As a development economist, the idea of 'industrial overcapacity' is one of the silliest things I've heard. Economic development entails export-led growth (i.e. 'overcapacity'). 'Overcapacity' is a myth spread by Western countries being outcompeted by developing countries.

US is not a democracy | Princeton University study

No market is too small for BYD. BYD investing $32 million in an assembly plant in Cambodia, could quickly dominate the (okay, small) market. Cambodia becoming China's BFF in SE Asia. Strategically placed between Thailand and Vietnam. caixinglobal.com/2025-05-01/byd…