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China’s Belt and Road Show an Expanding Girth

Our Correspondent
Jan 22, 2016
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President Xi Jinping has been in Saudi Arabia, a country described by one enthusiastic mainland reporter as a meeting place of One Belt One Road, a reference to the overland belt and maritime road by which China proposes to embrace Eurasia and even Africa.

That raises the issue of how this slogan posturing as a policy actually translates into practice. W…

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