🇨🇳🇳🇵 Nepal's ambassador to China, Bishnu Pukar Shrestha, says the Belt and Road Initiative (#BRI) is bringing the people of Nepal and China closer together and strengthening the country’s economic development. Connectivity is the most important thing he said, adding that the China-Nepal cross-border railway, will not only connect #Nepal and #China physically but, also connect the hearts of the people of the two countries. | China Focus

167K views · 2.1K reactions | An economic history of the world in 1 minute, 5 seconds. China's economy now ranks as the world’s biggest in purchasing-power-parity terms. But it is merely regaining a title that it has held for much of recorded history, as our video shows. The brief interlude in which America overshadowed it is now over. | The Economist | Facebook