The forum was centered on China’s foreign policy initiative, which aims to expand Beijing’s influence abroad with infrastructure projects.
The government invested heavily in infrastructure, state banks financed factory construction and consumers spent more, but real estate suffered.
For decades, spending on the future put the nation ahead of all others. What would it take to revive that spirit?
Xi Jinping enhanced China’s sway in the world by lending money for infrastructure. Now he’s collecting debts and rethinking his signature aid initiative.
China called the project a “signature” of its cooperation with Nepal. Insiders and documents reveal the pitfalls of China’s infrastructure-at-any-cost model.
For a time, whenever a bridge, tunnel or highway opened around New York, he endeavored to beat others onto, into or along it.
Two years after the federal government approved $350 billion in emergency funding for states and localities to respond to the public health crisis, much of the funds have not been used.
For as long as many New Yorkers can remember, the M.T.A. has needed more money. Now its budget is finally whole, and the pressure for good service is on.
The M.T.A. released a report on Wednesday that aimed to detail the greatest needs over the next two decades of the city’s aging transit system.
More than 20 people were killed and several were in intensive care after a bus crashed through a guardrail and onto an empty street below.
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