This edition of the Belt and Road Monitor covers developments from 1 to 31 May 2025. If you enjoy our Belt and Road coverage, ...

The Belt and Road Initiative is also expanding its geographic footprint, adding several new members, some of whom have close relations with the U.S., between 2021 and 2023.

W hen President Xi Jinping first assembled world leaders to map out his vision for expanding Chinese soft power via a web of infrastructure investment in 2017, he called the Belt and Road ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Wednesday declaring that "blueprints turned into real projects" during the decade since he launch his initiative to build ...

A.M. Edition for Nov. 29. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has seen Beijing spend billions of dollars across the developing world in order to expand its influence. But WSJ correspondent Saeed ...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a large-scale infrastructure development programme launched by China in 2013. The initiative aims to connect Asia with Europe and Africa, through a network of ...

There are two ways of looking at China’s US$1-trillion Belt and Road initiative (BRI), which was the subject of a tenth-anniversary summit in Beijing last week. In monetary terms, the project to ...