https://spacewatch.global/tag/silk-road-economic-belt-sreb/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:46:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/silk-road-economic-belt-sreb/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2018/01/satcom-along-belt-road-sri-lankas-supremesat-receives-investment-chinas-tatwah-smartech-co-ltd/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7148 Xiaoru Cai, the Chairman of China’s Tatwah Smartech Co. Ltd., took part in a ceremony on January 15, 2018, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, announcing a U.S.$30 million investment in SupremeSAT, the only Sri Lankan satellite communications company. The investment is intended to help SupremeSAT expand its geographical reach with its satellite communication services. SupremeSAT is […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/01/cambodia-signs-china-great-wall-industry-corp-belt-road-communications-satellite/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:30:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7136 Cambodia has signed a framework agreement with China Great Wall Industry Corporation for the acquisition of a communications satellite, along with its associated ground infrastructure and launch. The satellite agreement was one of nineteen agreements made between Cambodian and Chinese officials during a bilateral trade meeting on January 11, 2018, aimed at increasing trade between […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-chinas-space-silk-road-middle-east-israeli-perspective/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 05:30:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5435 In Part Five of the SpaceWatch Middle East multi-week theme on China’s Space Silk Road and the Middle East, leading Israeli space scholar Dr. Eytan Tepper provides an Israeli perspective. Dr. Tepper points out that while there is a tremendous amount of mutual opportunity between Israel and China on the Space Silk Road, Tel Aviv […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-chinas-space-silk-road-middle-east-chinese-space-silk-road/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:30:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5413 In Part One of this multi-week SpaceWatch Middle East Theme on the Chinese Space Silk Road and the Middle East, we invited Dr. Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) to provide an overview of the Space Silk Road for readers. The emergence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (formerly known as One […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-swme-oped-belt-road-initiative-chinas-vision-globalisation-beijing-style/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 08:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5439 Over the course of this coming week, SpaceWatch Middle East is running the first part of a multi-week theme on China’s Space Silk Road and the Middle East. Today, as a scene setter, Benjamin Habib and Viktor Faulknor of LaTrobe University in Australia, provide an overview of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, of which the Space […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-chinas-space-silk-road-middle-east-part-one/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:45:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5443 Centuries ago, China and Europe were connected by a number of trade routes across the Eurasian landmass and the Indian Ocean that were later known as the Silk Road. These Silk Roads not only connected the ancient Chinese Middle Kingdom and Medieval Europe, but also connected regions of Eurasia that are today known as Central […]]]>