Has the Belt and Road Initiative become a political liability for China?
5 min readSep 23, 2019
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Alicia Garcia Herrero, Natixis Asia Pacific Chief Economist, Bruegel Senior Fellow;
Since President Xi Jingping announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in late 2013, shortly after his arrival to power, China has invested some $300 billion in it, mainly in connectivity among neighboring countries. While the project is only five years…