China's overland Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Thread

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Yup....but there is BIG if because seems Iran is not very interested due to geo political scenarios....
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Iran wants its friends and neighbours Iraq and Syria to be rebuilt and it wants railways into and through those neighbours to the Mediterranean and when possible to Africa. China is the friend that is going to make that possible. That and Afghanistan and the North-South connection from the Indian Ocean with Russia are the main geopolitical considerations beside war threats from KSA, Israel and US.
 
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Iran wants its friends and neighbours Iraq and Syria to be rebuilt and it wants railways into and through those neighbours to the Mediterranean and when possible to Africa. China is the friend that is going to make that possible. That and Afghanistan and the North-South connection from the Indian Ocean with Russia are the main geopolitical considerations beside war threats from KSA, Israel and US.
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Exactly, you mentioned the very reasons why Iran refraining himself from that program (anything links India) & wants to be a part of CPEC & OBOR along with Pakistan/China & CS states....
 
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Pakistan & China Agree to Build Chashma 5 Nuclear Power Plant...

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have come to terms for the construction of a nuclear reactor. The agreement was signed between the two bodies which states that CNNC will build the HPR1000 reactor at Chashma nuclear power plant.

CNNC China Zhongyuan Engineering Corp, subsidiary of CNNC, will be leading the construction of the nuclear reactor in Pakistan.

According to the agreement, CNNC will build a one-million-kilowatt-class nuclear power unit with HPR1000 technology at the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan.

CNNC official told the media after signing the agreement.

The HPR1000 is the third reactor of the same series that China is going to build in Pakistan. Pakistan has already imported seven nuclear reactors so far from China. Two HPR1000 Hualong One reactors are already under construction at Karachi nuclear power plant.

The two reactors that were put in construction phase in 2015 and 2016, respectively, are expected to be completed and commercialized by 2021 and 2022, respectively.

Apart from these, 4 CNP300 reactors — Chinese built — are already fully operational at Chashma power plant. HPR1000 will be the fifth nuclear reactor at the site and is being called ‘Chashma 5’.

Read More: Pakistan’s 4th Nuclear Power Plant of 340MW is Now Operational

China has started working on construction of four HPR1000 reactors. Unit 3 and unit 4 are being constructed at Fangchenggang nuclear power plant. The other units, 4 and 6, have been inititated at Fuqing power plant.

Unit 5 and 3 will be operational by 2019, while the remaining two will be completed by 2020.

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Follow the Chinese Money Along the One Belt, One Road Initiative
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  • China's increasing influence outside its borders, often backed by infrastructure spending in return for commodities contracts, bothers some commentators. I myself see it as a new form of economic imperialism. But I also give China credit for investing in places where other nations have shown no willingness to do so.

    Investors would do well to follow the money. There are 70 nations involved in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) scheme China hopes will link it through Central, Southeast and South Asia to Europe. It's actually made up of many paths -- the "Belt and Road" idea is just a catchy concept. Still, those countries represent 4.5 billion people, or 62% of everybody on the planet, and $23 trillion in gross domestic product, or 30% of global GDP.

    It's not as easy as it sounds to track One Belt, One Road. Many of the countries along the way are frontier and emerging nations which, to be honest, have stock markets that you would be very brave to enter. They are thinly traded and extremely open to abuse, as I
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    after my recent trips to Vietnam.

    Investors should therefore let fund managers do the work for them. I'm a big fan of index trackers and exchange-traded funds, and there are several efforts under way to map China's rising infrastructure influence.

    There's the INDXX China Infrastructure Index, which takes 30 of China's largest infrastructure companies in a bid to duplicate the performance of the overall sector. As yet, there are no products that track the index, but watch this space.

    Separately, ICBC Standard Bank has created a proprietary tracker to follow the economic progress of the nations involved. It shows that demand for exports out of the Belt and Road economies is at its highest point since mid-2012.

    There's a "general narrative which suggests that global tailwinds have strengthened notably this year," the bank notes. But external demand is coming from an above-average base, and domestic demand is strong within the Belt and Road nations themselves. That means total demand is now showing clear momentum out of the prolonged post-crisis slump that lasted into 2015, so long is the lag produced in trade by an economic collapse.

    Some of China's new partners never participated in the run up before the "global" financial crisis. Most of Africa has been in crisis for most of the last century!

    China is investing heavily in Zimbabwe, and may well have granted approval to the coup that toppled Robert Mugabe,
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    . The influence has involved support for leaders like Mugabe. But frankly, Zimbabwe has been largely abandoned by its former colonial power, Britain.

    The former European overlords who scrambled so madly for Africa in the 1800s -- France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Spain also among them -- have been conspicuous by their absence in the years since they pulled out, often leaving a colossal post-colonial mess behind. China is filling that void.

    The KraneShares MSCI One Belt One Road ETF (
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    ) is the most-interesting new investable product tracking that progress. The fund, which launched in September, tracks the MSCI Global China Infrastructure Exposure Index, designed to build a portfolio of non-Chinese and Chinese companies alike that stand to benefit by winning business from Chinese government contracts.

    Frankly, Chinese officials throw any and every infrastructure project that takes place in any of the nations on the way between China and Europe as a Belt-and-Road initiative, as long as China was somehow involved. They have also admitted that many of the projects may lose money: as much as 80% in Pakistan, 50% in Myanmar and 30% in central Asia, according to news reports.

    This has drawn some heat. The Reuters columnist Christopher Beddor
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    for investing in projects that produce so much red ink. But his Breakingviews column misses the point that, while a hydroelectric dam or new airport may lose money, the companies that build them are often very profitable indeed.

    There's no doubt there's a dire need for China's concrete-pouring experience, which is legend. Asia needs $26 trillion in investment in infrastructure by 2030, according to the Asian Development Bank.

    To that end, China has orchestrated the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which in March expanded its ranks to 70 nations -- minus, famously, the United States and Japan. Chinese banks are stumping up much of the planned initial $1.0 trillion in investment to be pumped into OBOR states.

    China is the only nation that the ADB says is already spending around 90% of the levels it needs to invest in infrastructure. And there is a cluster of companies that are already gaining from China's heavy infrastructure spending.

    Chief among the definite beneficiaries of government largesse in infrastructure lending include China Communications Construction Co. or CCCC (
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    ) , which constructs ports, roads and railways. The Middle Kingdom is also home to the world's largest construction company, China State Construction Engineering SH:601668, sure to win plenty of government business.

    Other companies set to expand along the OBOR paths include China Railway Construction Corp. or CRCC (
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    ) , which as the world's second-biggest civil engineering company builds highways, bridges and even the stadium of soccer team Inter Milan, as well as the high-speed rail lines that led to its name. It is not to be confused with another beneficiary, the railways contractor CRRC HK:1766, short for the China Railway Rolling Stock Corp., by far the largest train manufacturer in the world.

    Investors can also take a look at Guangxi LiuGong Machinery SH:000528, better known simply as LiuGong, which makes construction equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, road rollers and forklift trucks. Reuters
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    of companies exposed to the OBOR initiative, noting that 90% of them will be Chinese, also including Sinotruk (
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    ) (full name: China National Heavy Duty Truck Group), which -- surprise, surprise -- makes heavy-duty trucks. Investors can also look to Chinese pile-driver, crane and cement-truck maker Sany Heavy Industry SH:600031.

    But foreign companies supplying gear to the Chinese construction companies also stand to gain. They include the likes of Siemens (
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    ) , which makes everything from electricity turbines to light switches, and the Swedish-Swiss electric-grid maker ABB (
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    charity portfolio name General Electric (
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    I mentioned the largest components of the KraneShares (
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    ) fund in Wednesday's story: the Singaporean bank OCBC (
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    ) , the Russian oil company Rosneft (
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    ) , the Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby KL:SIME, and the largest Thai oil company PTT Global Chemical (
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    ) .

    Other major holdings include Polish copper-mining company KGHM Polska Miedz FR:KGHA, the sprawling Filipino conglomerate JG Summit Holdings (
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    ) (parent of the airline Cebu Pacific and the Robinsons retail chain, as well as oil interests) and the Malaysian oil giant Petronas Chemicals Group KL:5183. They're all on the OBOR route, and their inclusion does mean that the ETF and index offer excellent exposure to emerging-market infrastructure and heavy industry.

    External demand is coming from an above-average base, and domestic demand is strong within the Belt and Road nations themselves. That means total demand is now showing clear momentum out of the prolonged post-crisis slump that lasted into 2015, so long is the lag produced in trade by an economic collapse.

    South Asia is seeing consumer credit grow by close to 15% year on year, with the rate of growth for the same indicator a little below 10% in East Asia. The former Soviet states have shown a dramatic rally from a close to 10% decline in consumer credit in early 2016, to growth at a pace approaching the rate of East Asia now. Only the Middle East and North Africa region is lagging on that front.
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Construction of 9.7 Km Malakand Tunnel Project at a total revised cost of Rs16.554 billion approved by ECNEC...

Malakand tunnel to provide a short route for the people of Malakand, Upper Dir, Lower Dir and Swat. Malakand Pass lies between Dargai-Batkhela..


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