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Italy withdraws from China's Belt and Road Initiative. Both countries have indicated a desire to maintain open channels of political dialogue.
2023-12-6

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold talks at the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China.
2023-10-17

The Taliban government confirms that it will attend the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China, next week, as the countries form closer economic ties, including the potential construction of a large copper mine in Logar Province, Afghanistan.
2023-10-15

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hangzhou, China, and signs a strategic partnership on infrastructure as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
2023-09-22

China has "indefinitely" suspended all activity under a China–Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, its state economic planner said. This has occurred after China imposed sanctions on Australian wine and coal while failing to renew Australian hay import permits, and Australia states cancelled participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative and are reviewing Chinese company Landbridge Group's lease on the Port of Darwin previously provided for 99 years at A$506 million.
2021-05-6

The government of Pakistan is "rethinking" its dependence on China for the loans it needs to complete its Peshawar to Karachi rail project. This is part of a broader pushback on the ambitions of China's Belt and Road Initiative throughout the region.
2018-09-30

The Government of China begins a two-day summit in Beijing, in an attempt to raise international support for its Belt and Road Initiative.
2017-05-14