This episode of the ChinaPower podcast explores current developments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the lead-up to the second Belt and Road Forum. Jonathan Hillman, Director of the CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project, discusses the BRI’s current projects and financing, including recent backlash and scrutiny from partner countries. He also details the approach the U.S. is taking toward the initiative in the face of recent agreements on the BRI between other democratic nations and China.
May 1, 2019
China’s hostile economic practices, military expansion, and coercive political and ideological tactics in Africa should not be ignored. However, establishing a clear distinction between detrimental and essential BRI engagement is crucial to fostering development, building common ground with China, and expanding the global market.
May 1, 2019
China’s Belt and Road (BRI) has taken a beating, but its central feature of big infrastructure projects will remain recognizable for years to come.
Apr 29, 2019
Xi Jinping wants to repair the Belt and Road brand—as 37 world leaders gather in Beijing—but promises for reform will require further monitoring. CSIS’s Matthew Goodman and Jonathan Hillman go over some key questions ahead of China’s Second Belt and Road forum.
Apr 24, 2019
Over the next 15 years, more hard infrastructure is projected to be built around the world than currently exists. As our infrastructure is transformed, so will be the economies it fuels, the regions it connects, and the global commons it underpins. These trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop, and too consequential to ignore.
Apr 23, 2019