Leaders pose for a group photo at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, Beijing, China, May 14, 2017. Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office Nearly a decade after ...

BEIJING — Representatives from dozens of countries are gathering in Beijing this week to mark the 10th anniversary of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a signature foreign policy initiative for ...

On July 1, a cargo train from western China reached Chancay, Peru — a symbolic milestone in Beijing’s quieter but sharper new global infrastructure strategy. As the Belt and Road Initiative evolves, ...

China has bolstered economic ties with countries around the world through its "Belt and Road" program. NPR's Scott Simon asks the European University Institute's Giulio Pugliese about it. President ...

Global Voices is excited to announce the release of our in-depth study about Chinese influence in countries that participate in China's Belt and Road Initiative. Since 2021, our Civic Media ...

Even as China’s Belt and Road Initiative gears up to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it is fading from prominence. In its place is the new Global Development Initiative (GDI). Chinese leader Xi ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) in 2013 launched an ambitious and multifaceted foreign economic policy initiative—One Belt, One Road—to expand China’s global economic reach and influence ...

When President Xi Jinping first assembled world leaders to map out his vision for expanding Chinese soft power via a web of infrastructure investment in 2017, he called the Belt and Road Initiative ...

As China celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with great fanfare this week, the life expectancy of President Xi Jinping's signature infrastructure program has been ...

Accusations that Belt and Road is a broad “debt trap” designed to take control of local infrastructure, while largely dismissed by economists, have sullied the initiative’s reputation – especially ...