Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative. A Clarification of its Key Features, Objectives and Impacts.

Author(s): Benno Zogg
Journal Title: SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Publisher(s): De Gruyter
Publication Year: 2020

In this review for the journal SIRIUS, the CSS’ Benno Zogg looks at a 2020 study by the RAND Corporation on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Their report, as opposed to many studies dealing with a topic that is surrounded by such superlatives and a hype as the BRI, offers some sober and evidence-based insights into the endeavor, its ambitions, and the most common points of critique against it.

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