The Belt & Road Initiative. China’s Effort to Create a New World Order The Freedom Hour. Podcasting for a Free China
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China recently marked the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature initiative of Xi Jinping launched in 2013. The BRI initiative started off as an economic project focused on connectivity and financing infrastructure projects but has now morphed into an ambitious geopolitical construct to expand China’s influence, increase regional dependency on China and counter the US and Western-led global world order. What is the scale and scope of the BRI and China’s ambition through this initiative? How is the initiative being received by recipient countries and others in the international community? What are the key concerns and issues?
Speakers:
Niva Yau
Nonresident Fellow, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council
Prashant Kumar Singh
Head of the East Asia Cluster
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Tenzin Lhadon
Research Fellow
Tibet Policy Institute (TPI)
Moderator:
Sakina Batt
Host, Freedom Hour
China recently marked the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature initiative of Xi Jinping launched in 2013. The BRI initiative started off as an economic project focused on connectivity and financing infrastructure projects but has now morphed into an ambitious geopolitical construct to expand China’s influence, increase regional dependency on China and counter the US and Western-led global world order. What is the scale and scope of the BRI and China’s ambition through this initiative? How is the initiative being received by recipient countries and others in the international community? What are the key concerns and issues?
Speakers:
Niva Yau
Nonresident Fellow, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council
Prashant Kumar Singh
Head of the East Asia Cluster
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Tenzin Lhadon
Research Fellow
Tibet Policy Institute (TPI)
Moderator:
Sakina Batt
Host, Freedom Hour