Belt and Road Initiative Helps CCP Control International Technical Standards

There is an increasing concern that the CCP is using the BRI to to promote its “Chinese standards” and seize the global technical standards-setting power.

Security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the forum's venue in Beijing on May 13, 2017.Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing’s global investment and lending program, not only spreads shoddy projects worldwide but also helps the communist regime seize control of technical standards in recent years.

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