Two countries on opposite ends of Eurasia are drawing closer, courtesy of the skein of railways slowly snaking across this massive region in the form of an evolving “Iron Silk Road.” While attending Chinese commemorations of the end of World War II in the Pacific, Belarus’s President Alyaksandr Lukashenka held bilateral talks with his counterpart, Xi Jinping. The Belarusian leader expressed his gratitude for Chinese investments and loans directed toward major infrastructure projects in his country. The Chinese financial inflow comes at a difficult time for the Belarusian economy, which has been hard hit by a recent downturn (Ctv.by, September …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation