BRI lauded for role in global power shift

Sound policy: An employee inspecting steel rolls at a factory in Nantong, eastern Jiangsu province. The success of the BRI is due to China’s capability to provide developing countries with total solutions for infrastructure. — AFP

LONDON: The implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has improved lives throughout the Global South, experts say, contradicting “debt trap” smears the initiative has drawn from some Western media outlets.

Scholars, journalists and politicians from both developing countries, such as Pakistan, Iran and Zambia, and developed countries, including Canada, Norway and the United Kingdom, participated in the webinar titled “Building a Multipolar World – 10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative”, which was co-organised by Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group.