By Philip Bowring
From the article:
China has launched a new publicity drive to promote the benefits of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – and the surprise is that a publicity campaign is necessary at all.
BRI was unveiled in late 2013 to build infrastructure in Asia, Africa and Europe, strengthening trade linkages via new versions of old land and sea routes between east and west, showing China as a strong global payer, financing viable projects and not projecting strategic power.
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Five of the eight most vulnerable countries, according to the Centre for Global Development – Mongolia, Pakistan, Laos, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – share a border with China and two small countries, Maldives and Djibouti, are strategically located on the Indian Ocean.
Of major countries, Pakistan is the most overtly in debt to China.
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