China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Sum of Messy Parts
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) gives the impression of a well-orchestrated program. But the decentralized and fragmented nature of the Chinese state means that BRI can merely aggregate spontaneous and competing local initiatives. In many ways, BRI could easily become less than the sum of its parts.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the world’…
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