Signals Flashing Red on Xi’s Belt and Road
Russia’s Ukraine invasion upends China’s plans
By: Hamish McDonald
The highly symbolic investment by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to bind Europe closer to China with steel rails through his trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative has been put in jeopardy by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rash invasion of Ukraine, endangering the “no limits” partnership declared with Putin at the Winter Olympics in …
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