How has the BRI changed the world?
The China-inspired Belt & Road Initiative is ten years old.
This linked short essay is one of the best available in English on the megaproject’s wide-ranging, epoch-making and world-wide significance. It was written by Professor Wang Wen of Renmin University of China, with this introduction taken from Thomas Hon Wing Polin at the Dragon’s Eye.
BRI is the largest development venture in history. It’s what Western media should be telling their audiences about, for the sake of a better world. But because of the Empire’s political imperatives, they are doing the opposite: either demonizing the enterprise or outright ignoring it.
That, however, isn’t going to stop BRI. Representing cross-cultural interaction and mutually beneficial exchange, it is the requirement of the times. As such, it is more powerful than the forces of negativity and obstruction arraigned against it.
The China-inspired Belt & Road Initiative is ten years old. This is one of the best short essays in English on the megaproject’s wide-ranging, epoch-making and world-wide significance.
BRI is the largest development venture in history. It’s what Western media should be telling their audiences about, for the sake of a better world. But because of the Empire’s political imperatives, they are doing the opposite: either demonizing the enterprise or outright ignoring it.
That, however, isn’t going to stop BRI. Representing cross-cultural interaction and mutually beneficial exchange, it is the requirement of the times. As such, it is more powerful than the forces of negativity and obstruction arraigned against it.