China’s “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) initiative is drawing concern and criticism due to its negative impact on various nations and companies. The project has caused many recipient countries to be heavily indebted to Beijing, and has allowed the Chinese regime to export their authoritarian model of governing through surveillance equipment.
The OBOR (also known as Belt and Road) initiative is an aggressive plan of building infrastructure throughout many Asian countries, into Africa, and the European Union. It establishes similar projects in Latin American countries, and has also began eyeing the Asia-Pacific region.