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The project has a target completion date of 2049.<ref>https://www.pr.com/press-release/780645</ref>
The project has a target completion date of 2049.<ref>https://www.pr.com/press-release/780645</ref>


In 2021, [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] has joined the BRI project for the purpose of expanding its telecommunications and green energy industries.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2021-10-18|title=Cuba Formally Joins China's Belt and Road Energy Partnership|url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Formally-Joins-Chinas-Belt-and-Road-Energy-Partnership-20211018-0016.html|newspaper=[[TeleSUR]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Syria has also joined.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-12-01|title=Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road, Seeking Lifeline to Defy U.S. Sanctions|url=https://www.newsweek.com/syria-officially-joins-chinas-belt-road-seeking-lifeline-defy-us-sanctions-1668849}}</ref> In February 2022, [[Argentine Republic|Argentina]] joined the BRI.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-02-06|title=Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1251555.shtml|newspaper=Global Times|retrieved=2022-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Benjamin Norton]]|date=2022-02-12|title=Trapped in IMF debt, Argentina turns to Russia and joins China's Belt & Road|url=https://youtu.be/NZzATH_759s|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]}}</ref>
In 2021, [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] has joined the BRI project for the purpose of expanding its telecommunications and green energy industries.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2021-10-18|title=Cuba Formally Joins China's Belt and Road Energy Partnership|url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Formally-Joins-Chinas-Belt-and-Road-Energy-Partnership-20211018-0016.html|newspaper=[[TeleSUR]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Syria has also joined.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-12-01|title=Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road, Seeking Lifeline to Defy U.S. Sanctions|url=https://www.newsweek.com/syria-officially-joins-chinas-belt-road-seeking-lifeline-defy-us-sanctions-1668849}}</ref> In February 2022, [[Argentine Republic|Argentina]] joined the BRI.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-02-06|title=Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1251555.shtml|newspaper=Global Times|retrieved=2022-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Benjamin Norton]]|date=2022-02-12|title=Trapped in IMF debt, Argentina turns to Russia and joins China's Belt & Road|url=https://youtu.be/NZzATH_759s|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]}}</ref> Total, this has lead the BRI to have three-fourths of nations in the world participating in it.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative participated by three-fourths of world's countries: FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/bb6a8edabb984f35bcbf2930e8649ad8/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref>
 
The participating countries have extracted great benefit from being members in the BRI.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative a high-quality public good: Chinese FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/445535cfeeb74f098e93ae9407a798a6/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref> It has created 420,000 jobs and lifted 40 million people out of poverty.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative creates 420,000 jobs for participant countries: FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/83163d3aca13492c9ffdfd7855c8fbbd/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative a key platform for new era of international cooperation: Thai ambassador|date=2023-03-08|url=https://english.news.cn/20230308/fc38b17e42aa43628f51b35af26fbca7/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref>


==Reactions==
==Reactions==

Revision as of 22:18, 28 June 2023

All countries that either attended a BRI summit (yellow) or who signed cooperation documents related to the BRI (red)
Countries currently in the Belt and Road Initiative

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. The BRI was initially proposed by China in Kazakhstan.[1] It is considered a centerpiece Xi Jinping's foreign policy.[2]

The BRI is one of the many factors which is leading to de-dollarization[3] the decline of the influence of the US empire,[4] and enhanced economic growth of non-aligned countries.[5]

The project has a target completion date of 2049.[6]

In 2021, Cuba has joined the BRI project for the purpose of expanding its telecommunications and green energy industries.[7] Syria has also joined.[8] In February 2022, Argentina joined the BRI.[9][10] Total, this has lead the BRI to have three-fourths of nations in the world participating in it.[11]

The participating countries have extracted great benefit from being members in the BRI.[12] It has created 420,000 jobs and lifted 40 million people out of poverty.[13][14]

Reactions

The BRI has been demonized by Western bourgeois media on the basis that it's a "debt trap"[15] or an example of so-called "Chinese imperialism," but these claims serve only propaganda purposes and are not founded in evidence.[16][17][18]

In response to concerns, the Communist Party of China has sought to improve reporting standards and transparency with their BRI projects so as to increase trust with member countries.[19]

Anti-imperialist journalist Richard Medhurst has reported that China's BRI project is helping to rebuild the economies that have been destroyed by Western wars and sanctions.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Officials, experts say deepened China-Central Asia cooperation on Belt and Road benefits region, world" (2023-05-18). Xinhua. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  2. ↑ "President Xi proposes Silk Road economic belt".
  3. ↑ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/04/09/the-de-dollarization-in-china/
  4. ↑ Danny Haiphong. "U.S. imperial Decline and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle of the Century" Black Agenda Report.
  5. ↑ "China’s BRI: The REAL Story! Symbol of its Inevitable Rise? With Hussein Askary!".
  6. ↑ https://www.pr.com/press-release/780645
  7. ↑ "Cuba Formally Joins China's Belt and Road Energy Partnership" (2021-10-18). TeleSUR.
  8. ↑ "Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road, Seeking Lifeline to Defy U.S. Sanctions" (2022-12-01).
  9. ↑ "Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation" (2022-02-06). Global Times. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  10. ↑ Benjamin Norton (2022-02-12). "Trapped in IMF debt, Argentina turns to Russia and joins China's Belt & Road" Multipolarista.
  11. ↑ "Belt and Road Initiative participated by three-fourths of world's countries: FM" (2023-03-07). Xinhua. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  12. ↑ "Belt and Road Initiative a high-quality public good: Chinese FM" (2023-03-07). Xinhua. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  13. ↑ "Belt and Road Initiative creates 420,000 jobs for participant countries: FM" (2023-03-07). Xinhua. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  14. ↑ "Belt and Road Initiative a key platform for new era of international cooperation: Thai ambassador" (2023-03-08). Xinhua. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  15. ↑ "China's debt-trap diplomacy". The Hill.
  16. ↑ "Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’". Chatham House.
  17. ↑ "The Chinese 'Debt Trap' Is a Myth". The Atlantic.
  18. ↑ "Catagorically Debunking the Claim that China is Imperialist".
  19. ↑ "China’s response to Belt and Road backlash".
  20. ↑ "Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road Initiative | BRI" (2022-01-25).
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