Sentences with phrase «chinese infrastructure investments»

Future Chinese infrastructure investments in these countries will come with a halo of central government support and diplomatic hand - holding.

The result is large Chinese infrastructure investments to expand both land and sea trading routes throughout that part of the world, in which 60 % of the world's population resides.

Not exact matches

So China has increasingly looked to investments in infrastructure and construction to keep Chinese workers employed.

The push by the tech sector piggybacks on years of state - driven Chinese investments in infrastructure in Latin America, with a pool of 2,000 companies pouring more than $ 200 billion in the region as of January.

HOUSTON / HONG KONG, April 10 (Reuters)- A Chinese investment firm is attempting to restructure an $ 812 million deal for the U.S. developer of the Alerian MLP Index, which tracks publicly traded energy infrastructure companies, three people familiar with the matter said in recent days, after missing two deadlines to close the deal.

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«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

Chinese and Canadian officials meeting at a seminar on asset management and economic development in the central and western regions of China, feel that the Chinese government's preferential policies for the introduction of foreign investment in the region, along with an abundance of natural resources and the booming infrastructure development, offer opportunities for economic cooperation between...

The European Parliament is currently examining a 2017 proposal from Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker to start screening Chinese investments in the hi - tech or infrastructure sectors.

Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has soared from under $ 1 billion in 2008 to $ 35 billion in 2016.2 Examples of Chinese economic activities include: acquisitions of European companies in a variety of strategic fields, most notably in the technology sector; sustained investment into existing critical infrastructure; and the provision of funding for new infrastructure projects.

China's Belt and Road Initiative, aimed at creating connectivity between Europe and the broader Eurasian region, is increasingly driving Chinese investment into European infrastructure.

HOUSTON / HONG KONG A Chinese investment firm is attempting to restructure an $ 812 million deal for the U.S. developer of the Alerian MLP Index, which tracks publicly traded energy infrastructure companies, three people familiar with the matter said in recent days, after missing two deadlines to close the deal.

Investments by Chinese state - owned or state - directed companies have targeted sensitive industries such as nuclear energy, transport infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, and real estate.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

This further distorted financial markets, increased local government debt, improved infrastructure rather than skills and delayed the growth of private domestic consumption, which everyone agrees must replace investment and exports as the driver of Chinese growth.

He warned that the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactors) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and»... no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.»

At 1 p.m., NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology host the U.S. - China Collaboration Forum on Investment and Development in U.S. Infrastructure, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University, Clyde and Helen Wu Auditorium, 104 Haven Ave., Manhattan.

George Osborne in particular was wanting to have Chinese investment, big infrastructure projects to show off to the Tory backbenchers.

The Chinese will spend $ 9.3 trillion in the next decade according to investment bank Morgan Stanley, building out its roads and other infrastructure.

«Building a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in five years.

Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei (left) speaks during the signing ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank last year in Beijing.

HRG's experts cite investment in Chinese infrastructure as one of the vital factors in the rise of business travel across China.

It goes something like this: «There is a very serious climate challenge facing us, and dealing with it gives us a chance to create a new kind of prosperity and economic growth ---- for Americans and Chinese alike — through investments in technology and infrastructure.

Their experience in particular in helping Chinese companies make energy investments around the world is a perfect fit with Jones Day's global capabilities in energy, mergers and acquisitions, projects and infrastructure, finance, tax, and many other practice areas,» said Jeff Schlegel, head of Jones Day's Energy Practice.

It is likely to generate a wide range of commercial and investment disputes in the infrastructure, transportation, logistics, maritime, energy and financing sectors, between Chinese investors and their local partners or host governments in the OBOR region.