The year 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transcontinental connectivity project launched by China in 2013 to foster infrastructure development and trade growth, plus other activities for promoting international cooperation, such as cultural exchange. However, Western media coverage generally portrays the BRI as a Chinese-government-led strategy to project geopolitical influence, even with the intention of gaining advantage in developing infrastructure projects via so-called “debt-trap” diplomacy. As this narrative hangs on very sketchy evidence, academic research on the BRI as a geopolitical campaign overlooks the extensive geo-economic structure of connectivity shaped by the BRI’s first decade.
From the Middle Out and Bottom Up: The Belt and Road Initiative at 10 and Corridor Connectivity From the Middle Out and Bottom Up: The Belt and Road Initiative at 10 and Corridor Connectivity
Prof. Dr. Xiangming Chen
In his publication, Prof. Dr. Xiangming Chen, Visiting Fellow of CASSIS, discusses the significance of China's Silk Road Initiative.
From the Middle Out and Bottom Up: The Belt and Road Initiative at 10 and Corridor Connectivity
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