Once the world's largest financier, China has in recent years become its top debt collector as grace periods expire on ...

The Belt and Road Initiative has also stoked opposition. For some countries that take on large amounts of debt to fund infrastructure upgrades, BRI money is seen as a potential poisoned chalice.

Success or failure of the Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia can be determined by asking two questions. First, do recipient countries view the BRI as a positive Chinese initiative that brings ...

and helping other countries. Why is the “Belt and Road Initiative” becoming just “Belt and Road cooperation” in official discourse, and why is the narrative around the BRI being ...

China is soaking up the benefits of their Belt and Road Initiative ... and initiative frustrations — just five years after joining! It was also estimated that the developing countries of ...

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 ...

China was supposed to have taken the lead in influencing the developing world, and it was winning more countries into ... debt problems of the Belt and Road Initiative? Belt and Road 2.0 ...

It has been over 11 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative ... as Huawei in the infrastructure of other countries will increase global dependency on ...

For the past decade, China has used its so-called Belt and Road Initiative to create better relations through massive infrastructure loans. Nearly 150 countries have participated. Giulio Pugliese ...

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 Provided by ...

Now, as representatives from many of the nearly 150 Belt and Road countries assemble in Beijing this week for a summit, the initiative is changing shape. China’s role has shifted from being the ...