If the New Silk Road is to reach Europe, China’s bureaucrats will need to lift their game and more closely communicate policy developments with their counterparts in countries along its path, Tristan Kenderdine writes.  

China is aligning its football investments with a strategy to secure West Asian minerals. Its ‘One Belt, One Road’ project could have major implications for the new world order of football, Simon Chadwick writes.

While Chinese policy in Jordan holds great economic potential, it also carries a degree of risk, Greg Everett writes.

Beijing needs to meet its One Belt, One Road partners half way if it wants the ambitious project to succeed, writes Ben Hillman.

Will India sign up to China’s grand plan, or will suspicion and a clash of interests get in the way?