Five years after Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative on a visit to Kazakhstan, the plan to rebuild the ancient silk road connecting China and Europe has become his signature foreign policy.
But for something so monumental, so important to the Chinese leadership and so potentially controversial abroad, it is often hard to find solid and specific information on the project.
Critics have described the plan as neocolonialism, as a strategic ploy to enhance China’s military power outside its borders or as a plot to ensnare countries in debt traps that eventually force them to hand over territory and strategic assets.
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