China's global infrastructure initiative has always been controversial. As Xi Jinping's signature project turns 10, leaders and representatives of 130 countries are in Beijing to mark the anniversary.
People walk past a decorative installation for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on Sunday in Beijing.People walk past a decorative installation for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on Sunday in Beijing.BEIJING — Representatives from dozens of countries are gathering in Beijing this week to mark the 10th anniversary of China's Belt and Road Initiative , a signature foreign policy initiative for China's leader, Xi Jinping.
When it was launched in 2013, an aim was to remove divisions between East and West, according to Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova, director of the China Studies Center at Riga Stradins University in Latvia."Belt and Road was about connecting to Europe, was about creating these links, reviving the old Silk Road," she says.
Marina Rudyak, an expert on Chinese aid and international development cooperation at Heidelberg University in Germany, agrees. So as a large creditor, China is also under pressure. A recent study by the New York-based research firm Rhodium Group showed that, over the last three years, overSome pundits have questioned the Belt and Road Initiative's future. But this week's two-day gathering in Beijing shows that the political significance of Xi's signature project remains potent.
Western nations have criticized Beijing for failing to condemn Putin's war in Ukraine — and some may see Putin's participation in the BRI gathering as a sign of a relationship that has deepened since the two sides declared it to have"This pool photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin giving an interview to China Media Group at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.
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