China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) includes infrastructure projects around the world on such an enormous scale that it can produce either significant benefits or damaging consequences for tens of ...

Hailed as “the project of the century” by Xi, it is a comprehensive project that seeks to embrace all aspects of development. The BRI is a massive trade and infrastructure project that aims to link ...

They signed a BRI framework cooperation agreement during Nepali PM Oli’s visit to China. Will that speed up implementation?

Until very recently these investments were dominated by fossil fuel projects, triggering concerns that countries signed up to the BRI would replicate China’s emission-intensive development pathway. In ...

Italy was the only major Western nation to sign up to the BRI, one of China's most ambitious trade and infrastructure projects, in 2019. The move was heavily criticised by the US and others at the ...