China has issued over $1 trillion in loans and grants for tens of thousands of projects across the developing world.

China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

China’s signature Belt and Road Initiative has failed to live up to ... while the debt incurred by participating countries caused great harm. The BRI sought to address pressing needs by ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced in Beijing Monday that his country would be joining China's Belt and Road Initiative ... Latin American countries in the initiative and seeks to ...