Chinese media and establishment voices have been predictably optimistic. A China Daily headline last month read, “Experts: BRI enters its golden decade.” The article noted that the Shenzhen-based think tank China Development Institute had launched a Belt and Road Research Institute. In order to overcome the challenge that “our voices can’t be heard globally,” two experts cited in the article argued, the BRI “is becoming an important platform for China to integrate into the world and to exert its influence on the world.”
mandag 20. januar 2025
ENTERING 2025, CHINA AND PARTNER COUNTRIES REFLECT ON THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the first time. At the start of 2025, over a decade since the BRI’s official launch in 2013, analysts reflected on how the BRI is being perceived in China and in partner countries around the world.
Chinese media and establishment voices have been predictably optimistic. A China Daily headline last month read, “Experts: BRI enters its golden decade.” The article noted that the Shenzhen-based think tank China Development Institute had launched a Belt and Road Research Institute. In order to overcome the challenge that “our voices can’t be heard globally,” two experts cited in the article argued, the BRI “is becoming an important platform for China to integrate into the world and to exert its influence on the world.”
Chinese media and establishment voices have been predictably optimistic. A China Daily headline last month read, “Experts: BRI enters its golden decade.” The article noted that the Shenzhen-based think tank China Development Institute had launched a Belt and Road Research Institute. In order to overcome the challenge that “our voices can’t be heard globally,” two experts cited in the article argued, the BRI “is becoming an important platform for China to integrate into the world and to exert its influence on the world.”
