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    BELT AND ROAD

    Oct 23, 2019 2 minutes

    aunched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is reckoned to be the largest infrastructure project in history. The network of Chinesefunded ports, railroads, highways and power plants will stretch from China to Europe through Central Asia, extending to South and South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America. It has been called a ‘Chinese plan to build a new world order replacing the US-led international system’.

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