grown rapidly and produced fruitful outcomes over the past 10 years. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to create a huge economic zone linking land and sea routes mainly in Asia and Europe.

China's overseas mining investment under its Belt and Road Initiative hit another peak last year at $21.4 billion.

Elemental geographical realities mean… China’s big gamble in Pakistan: A 10-year scorecard for CPEC A flagship for China’s much-vaunted Belt and Road Initiative, the $62 billion China-Pakistan ...

While Chinese lending for infrastructure under the banner of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has fallen substantially in recent years and many BRI projects have run into serious issues ...

Wall St. Insights In the last decade, no country has invested more in the rest of the world than China. In what critics term debt-trap diplomacy, Chinese investment induces economic dependency among ...

It has been over 11 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative ... has pumped roughly ...

More information: Andrea Ghiselli et al, Blowback: When China's Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions, International Studies Quarterly (2025). DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf014 ...

Since 2013, when China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), interest in the ... and railways. In recent years, its scope has expanded to include energy development, digital infrastructure ...

announced on Thursday that the country will withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative, the ambitious Chinese project to fund infrastructure to improve connectivity and economic cooperation with ...

Panama has withdrawn from the Chinese "Belt and Road Initiative ... have joined the initiative. Panama signed a memorandum in 2017, which was renewed every three years. Panama's decision marks ...

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China’s massive Belt and Road ... in recent years, both sides of that rivalry have become more combative. For our new series,… World Apr 26 China promises global infrastructure initiative ...