Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Key takeaways from the third Belt and Road Forum for the future of the global initiative.

The specter of insecurity in Afghanistan has been replaced by a lack of governance and widespread incompetence. Investors from China or any other country can be expected to be deeply wary.

Top-level representation dropped to a new low, based largely on a lack of interest from European states.

This week's Belt and Road Forum has demonstrated that many Southeast Asian leaders still view China as central to their nations’ economic prosperity.

The problem with all this focus on Chinese economic coercion, and the related anxieties about its ability to weaponize trade, is that China hasn’t been particularly good at it.

The big event is happening October 17and 18. The question now is: who will show up?

The $7.3 billion project connects the cities of Jakarta and Bandung, which lie along one of the world's most congested travel corridors.

IMEC is touted as a counter to China’s BRI, but the scale and scope of the latter initiative is much greater.

Mapping the BRI's growth over its first 10 years – and its transformation from a Eurasian transit corridor to an initiative with global scope.

One decade of the BRI: Where it started, how it has changed, and where it may be going.

The soft launch of the railway, Southeast Asia's first high-speed line, has been pushed back from August 18 until early September.

China is transitioning from one major global project to another. How are they different?