IN late 2013, China proposed an ambitious strategy to connect two-thirds of the world’s populations via the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road sea route, later known as the Belt and Road initiative.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has said that the project would bring enormous benefits that would lead to the prosperity of the people and countries along the routes.
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