By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
When Xi Jinping, then the Secretary General of the Communist Party of China, announced the ‘One Belt One Road’ project during his visit to Kazakhstan in 2013, it was widely projected as a program of rapid economic development that would benefit all member states.
The project, later called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), has al…
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