Reduced BRI Expected to Offer Less Money

Israel-Hamas war overshadows forum in Beijing

By: Toh Han Shih

The face we present to new borrowers

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to keep up the funding at the third Belt and Road Forum, a celebratory gathering of BRI recipients, supplicants, and friendly country leaders in Beijing earlier this week, analysts expect China to tighten the purse strings in coming years for projects arou…