Cross-border e-commerce integrates with logistics and digital payments in partner countries. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is best known for ports and railways, but in 2025, its digital dimension is just as important. Digital trade corridors, networks combining e-commerce platforms, logistics, and
China’s flagship initiative pivots from ports and railways to digital highways. From Steel to Silicon When China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, the focus was clear: ports, railways, and power plants. A decade later, BRI is evolving into what
Testing China’s CBDC in cross-border trade corridors from Asia to the Middle East. Taking the Digital Yuan Overseas China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), known as the digital yuan (e-CNY), has moved from domestic pilots into the global arena. After years of testing
