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China’s Belt (Tightening) and Road (to Nowhere) Initiative Update

Countries have second thoughts about the BRI.
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China’s Belt (Tightening) and Road (to Nowhere) Initiative Update
A part of the first rail line linking China to Laos, a key part of Beijing's 'Belt and Road' project across the Mekong, in Luang Prabang, on Feb. 8, 2020. Aidan Jones/AFP via Getty Images
Stu Cvrk
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In October, the world endured a barrage of propaganda from communist China’s state-run media in support of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive international infrastructure and economic development program that began with great fanfare in 2013.

Stu Cvrk
Stu Cvrk
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Stu Cvrk retired as a captain after serving 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience as an oceanographer and systems analyst, Cvrk is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education that serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.
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