{"id":346647,"date":"2026-03-19T03:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346647\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:35:22","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-investments-hit-record-high-on-energy-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346647\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Belt and Road investments hit record high on energy deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/belt-and-road\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belt and Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Beijing tripled gas and oil project outlays in 2025 to secure supplies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260318N Sinopec\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec invested $3.7 billion to build a refinery at Hambantota port in Sri Lanka. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative reached record high investment last year driven by oil and natural gas projects, a study shows, part of Beijing&#8217;s moves to secure resources and strengthen supply chains in developing countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belt and Road Beijing tripled gas and oil project outlays in 2025 to secure supplies Chinese state-owned oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[99504,114,59329,4756,184,1435,10068,14737,85,8298,46,10067,16014],"class_list":["post-346647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-belt","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-deals","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-high","tag-hit","tag-il","tag-investments","tag-israel","tag-record","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}