China’s road to ruin: The real tool of Beijing’s belt and road
- Foreign Affairs
- 102(5), Sep-Oct, 2023: p. 143-152
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jumping’s Belt and road Initiative, the largest and most ambitious infrastructure development project in human history. China has lent more than $1 trillion to more than 100 countries through the schemes, dwarfing western spending in the developing world and stoking anxieties about the spared of Beijing’s power and influence. – Reproduced