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About 10,000 people have been killed in the three-year conflict.
Japan's economy grew thanks to a lower yen and strong exports but tensions with North Korea could prove a setback.
The new freight route is also part of China's New Silk Road plan.
America is in the throes of yet another decisive chapter in race relations, but what kind of nation will emerge?
Chinese economic growth averaged 10 per cent for three decades through 2010 after opening up in the late 1970s.
China has signed currency swap agreements with 22 countries and regions along the Belt and Road.
In 2016, the bank granted $1.5 billion in loans to seven projects.
The Treasury Department has ranked China as the biggest foreign creditor of the US for the majority of the past nine years.
More than 100 peacekeepers have been killed in Mali in the past four years.
There is an increase in incitement to hatred and exclusion in many countries of Europe today, says Cywiski.