Publication

This publication analyzes China’s motivations for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as well as the plan’s implications for the country and its wider region. The text’s author contends that for China, the key to the BRI’s fortunes will be Beijing’s management of one conundrum above all else: the ability to retain sufficient support from the world’s governments and institutions as a means of both underpinning its business case and heading off the possibility of geo-economic and geostrategic competition. This report also outlines challenges that the initiative currently faces, as well as the implications of current and mooted future responses by countries such as Australia that hold concerns about the agenda.