Labelled China's most ambitious foreign and economic policies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)... more Labelled China's most ambitious foreign and economic policies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to connect the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa through infrastructure investments and trade developments. Its main drivers can be pegged to China's domestic growth concerns and calls for greater international participation, leading to an elaborate four level marketing plan to convince countries to participate: the window dressing, infrastructural investments, additional investments and loans. However, the scope of this initiative heavily impacts the United States within the realms of geopolitics, as it pertains to policy, trade agreements and the trade war, and economics, as it pertains to the substitutability of the international financial system. As such, the BRI is not without ample concerns a there have been debates about issues regarding transparency, credit and a clash of political ideals, among others, when it comes to dealings with China.
Labelled China's most ambitious foreign and economic policies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)... more Labelled China's most ambitious foreign and economic policies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to connect the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa through infrastructure investments and trade developments. Its main drivers can be pegged to China's domestic growth concerns and calls for greater international participation, leading to an elaborate four level marketing plan to convince countries to participate: the window dressing, infrastructural investments, additional investments and loans. However, the scope of this initiative heavily impacts the United States within the realms of geopolitics, as it pertains to policy, trade agreements and the trade war, and economics, as it pertains to the substitutability of the international financial system. As such, the BRI is not without ample concerns a there have been debates about issues regarding transparency, credit and a clash of political ideals, among others, when it comes to dealings with China.
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