About the Book: End of the Chinese Century? How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and
Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative, when first unveiled by Xi Jinping in 2013, was
envisioned as even bigger and grander than Americas Marshall Plan. Famously
referred to as the New Silk Route, it proposed an overland silk Road Economic
Belt connecting China with Europe through Central Asia and the Maritime Silk
Road that the Chinese claim existed in ancient times across the Indian Ocean.
The BRI would not only restore Chinas glory as a global trading nation, but also
establish its status as the world leader, overtaking the United States..
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