{"id":21631,"date":"2025-08-25T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21631\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:38:10","slug":"record-spending-on-belt-and-road-targets-energy-and-mineral-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21631\/","title":{"rendered":"Record spending on Belt and Road targets energy and mineral resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/caixin\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caixin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Funding by Chinese companies in 2025 is on pace to double last year&#8217;s $122 billion<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20250818 Caixin\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chinese companies funneled $44 billion into energy-related deals in countries aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative in the first half 2025, the highest since the initiative was launched in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>ZHAO XUAN and HAN WEI, Caixin<\/p>\n<p>August 25, 2025 09:00 JST<\/p>\n<p id=\"main0-p-1\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Chinese investment in countries aligned with its Belt and Road Initiative rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of 2025, driven by a strategic pivot toward energy and mineral resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caixin Funding by Chinese companies in 2025 is on pace to double last year&#8217;s $122 billion Chinese companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[18561,79,179,18,7520,19,17,521,18560,4617,9311,5569,18562],"class_list":{"0":"post-21631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-belt","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mineral","16":"tag-record","17":"tag-resources","18":"tag-road","19":"tag-spending","20":"tag-targets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}