What's Happening with China's Belt and Road

China's Belt and Road Initiative represents one of the largest infrastructure investment projects the world has ever seen. CSIS's Jonathan Hillman dives into what the project has come to look like in the six years since its inception, the issues it faces moving forward, and the threats and opportunities it presents to the United States. This is what's happening with China's Belt and Road.

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[georgedeikun]

It would be interesting for CSIS to do a more indepth analysis country-by-country of China's investments and projects under this initiative. We hear lots of press announcements about deals but little on specifics.

[ЗенюсЯнулявичус]

Silk Belt (and this initiative was originally called and I even know that then offer this name in the editorial office of the Zhenmin Zhebao newspaper in 2004.)

Initially, it was not intended to create just transport infrastructure in the EU. Transport and infrastructure are already redundant.

(Deputy Chairman for the Kaliningrad Region, representative in the Youth Parliamentary Assembly).

The desire to serve for the Chinese - the United Russia party and my disagreement with this led to the fact that after the merger of the parties I was blacklisted, was deprived of all authority. But I do not regret it - I did not take part in the elimination of humanity. And I will appear before the gods without bearing responsibility for this crime.

The goal was never to build just transport. The goal was to redistribute zones of influence, seizing power over countries. I remember how we discussed Africa with my Chinese comrades. And then I saw how they got Tanzania under control exactly in the form that I had predicted. This is fun.

Why did I do this? Because for me, Great Britain is the enemy that destroyed us Russians. Now we would have to be 250 million and the standard of living in European countries if not for Great Britain. Therefore, I support the destruction of Great Britain by China.

But I was always against the idea that Russia would be under China. I have always been a supporter of the EU as the will of the continental powers and have been loyal to the United States. I even wanted to emigrate to the USA, but it did not work out.
The capture of Russia by China and the final destruction of the Russians that is already taking place will ultimately lead to the defeat of the EU. But I am a supporter of the victory of the EU.

What happened and is happening in Hong Kong is part of this strategy and this Sino-British confrontation. And although I personally sympathize with simple Hongkongers - and my main account was blocked by Alpabet for this. But I hate HSBC and the British. I sincerely wish that they survived all that they condemned us - Russians. That they would chop off the head of their king. Not them - so their Chinese friends. How did they do it in Russia. That the bandits would proletarians plunder and burn the Palace of Westminster. And this is quite likely with time.

That’s why it’s funny to hear that this generally related to transport.

[kingjava]

*The Chinese is building the Belt and Road.
*Trump is bombing the Chinese Belt and Road.

[jeanneng]

Why are you only talking about projects facing difficulties and not mentioning about successful projects? Look at the development of Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda with the due to the latest infrastructure that China has helped them to build. Not to say the CPEC in Pakistan and the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh.

[arminius]

I'm loving the comments of Sinophobes. Cry a little bit louder because I can't hear you people.

[Crazy_Horsey]

What China is doing is filling the gap that the developed countries have not had any interests to do so far: lift the infrastructure necessary for poorer countries to participate in global trades. Tho the western media often depicts China as a cunning investor, it's probably to b expected that they would want to gain benefits and return on such investments. There s no free lunch. So instead of looking down or only raise their dissentment of the countries for accepting these deals from China, they should look at how they want to play this game. The western world has not made any effort to invest in these infrastructure in developing countries. They either see them as a source of natural resource exploitation, make them targets for those 'charity projects' that basically only shine a good light on their conscience that they are giving some thing back to those people. What they give is a grain of salt compared to what they get. In a way both big boys US and China are bad, but the countries need to choose the one less worse ...

[Xaiando]

Yeah it's hard to tell the motives behind it with all the other nasty things going on. I for one who have one leg here and one leg in China hope this i a peaceful message but other messages heard world wide make it sound very ominous. I hope all of this mess can resolve soon.