How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is seen by some as a geopolitical strategy to ensnare countries in unsustainable debt and allow China undue influence.
The speakers challenge this position, arguing that the available evidence suggests that: economic factors are the primary driver of China’s BRI; China’s development financing system is too fragmented and poorly coordinated to pursue detailed strategic objectives; and developing-country governments and their associated political and economic interests co-determine the nature of BRI projects on their territory.
They highlight the cases of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, arguing their most controversial BRI projects have been shaped by domestic agendas and that these countries’ debt problems have arisen mainly from the misconduct of local elites and Western-dominated financial markets.
This event launches the publication Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/debunking-myth-debt-trap-diplomacy-jones-hameiri
Видео How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative канала Chatham House
The speakers challenge this position, arguing that the available evidence suggests that: economic factors are the primary driver of China’s BRI; China’s development financing system is too fragmented and poorly coordinated to pursue detailed strategic objectives; and developing-country governments and their associated political and economic interests co-determine the nature of BRI projects on their territory.
They highlight the cases of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, arguing their most controversial BRI projects have been shaped by domestic agendas and that these countries’ debt problems have arisen mainly from the misconduct of local elites and Western-dominated financial markets.
This event launches the publication Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/debunking-myth-debt-trap-diplomacy-jones-hameiri
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