Ipse by Tag - Belt and Road Initiative

Vuk Vuksanović

Inserted 1 week ago

“This visit [Xi Jinping in Belgrade] shows that Serbia has exchanged Russia for China went it comes to its main partner to bargain with the West. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine placed the Serbo-Russian relationship under close monitoring, so the government sees a benefit in playing the Chinese card more often now since it's deemed to be less provocative. The Balkans, and Serbia in particular, have become even more interesting for China now that one branch of the Belt and Road Initiative through Russia and Belarus was effectively cut off with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”

Politico

Researcher at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy

08 May 2024 6 6

Xi Jinping

Inserted 7 months ago

“In the face of an unstable and uncertain international environment, China is willing to continue to work with Syria in the interests of friendly cooperation and safeguarding international fairness and justice. China supports Syria's opposition to foreign interference, unilateral bullying … and will support Syria's reconstruction. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Syria through the Belt and Road Initiative … to make positive contributions to regional and world peace and development.”

Aljazeera

President of the People's Republic of China

22 Sep 2023 2 4

Niva Yau

Inserted 2 years ago

“By design, it's meant to be abstract and vague. The point was that any Chinese stakeholder could come in and do any project and that could be called part of BRI [Belt And Road Initiative]. We need to stop thinking of it as one thing. It's always changing and is ultimately about China increasing its influence in all aspects globally. [BRI] is targeting the public more and more. Of course, this isn't always effective, but that isn't really what matters right now. If they continue to invest in soft power and devote resources towards it, that will eventually see some results.”

Rferl

Senior researcher at the OSCE academy in Bishkek

01 Jan 2022 2 2

Michael Clauss

Inserted 2 years ago

“Global Gateway has the potential to turn the EU into a more effective geopolitical player. For many partner countries, the offer of a rules and values-based cooperation at eye level will be an attractive alternative to the Chinese Belt and Road initiative.”

Taipeitimes

German Ambassador to the EU

01 Dec 2021 5 2

Brad Parks

Inserted 2 years ago

“Many poor governments could not take on any more loans. So [China] got creative. Loans were given to a constellation of actors other than central governments, but often backed by a government guarantee to pay up if the other party could not. The contracts are murky and governments themselves don't know the exact monetary values they owe to China. What we're seeing right now with the Belt and Road Initiative is buyers' remorse. Many foreign leaders who were initially eager to jump on the Belt and Road Initiative bandwagon are now suspending or canceling Chinese infrastructure projects because of debt sustainability concerns.”

Taipeitimes

AidData executive director

29 Sep 2021 3 6

Meia Nouwens

Inserted 2 years ago

“If China is seen as the only country to offer assistance, then this can become another opportunity for China to leverage its south-south narrative and point out that only Beijing has other countries' interests and wellbeing at heart. At a time when the west is trying to push back on China's narrative and improve partnerships with countries to offer alternatives to the belt and road initiative or digital infrastructure, the west should signal that it doesn't only speak about partnerships, but it matches words with actions.”

Theguardian

Senior fellow for Chinese defence policy and military modernisation at the London-based thinktank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

21 Sep 2021 2 3

Abdulkadir Emin Onen

Inserted 2 years ago

“With this understanding, we also support various regional efforts focusing on enhancing economic, energy and infrastructure connectivity, including the [China-proposed] Belt and Road Initiative. There is ample room for cooperation between Turkey and China in these sectors, particularly in the reconstruction process of Afghanistan in the time ahead.”

Globaltimes

Turkish Ambassador to China

11 Sep 2021 3 3

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“We need to redouble our efforts to advance mutually-beneficial cooperation [between China and Russia]. We need to deepen the collaboration between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union, support the innovative development of the digital economy, jointly tackle global climate change, and promote social and economic development in the region.”

Globaltimes

President of the People's Republic of China

03 Sep 2021 5 3

Reinhard Bütikofer

Inserted 3 years ago

“The current discussions are very serious. In the EU, the parliament has adopted a global connectivity strategy and connectivity financing has been included in the programming of the [Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument], the EU's global financing instrument. President Biden has highlighted the issue. India, Japan, Australia, ASEAN, and other partners are highly interested in moving the connectivity agenda forward. China has been exploiting the needs of developing countries, but lamenting about that fact without offering an alternative is useless. You cannot fight something with nothing. The difference between Western connectivity strategy and China's BRI [Belt and Road Initiative] will be threefold: We will insist on high-quality and high-standard projects; we will avoid debt traps; we will mobilize private-sector involvement to strengthen our initiatives.”

Rferl

German politician and the chair of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with China

19 May 2021 10 3

Dengxin Dong

Inserted 3 years ago

“Washington has been abusing SWIFT to arbitrarily sanction any country at will, which sparked global dissatisfaction. If China and Russia could work together to challenge the dollar hegemony, a laundry list of countries would echo the call and join the new system. At first, the system could push forward a trial run in Central Asian countries and countries and regions along the routes of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As its influence grows, the system is poised to draw in other countries in Europe and ASEAN.”

Globaltimes

Director of the Finance and Securities Institute at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology

22 Mar 2021 8 3

Ni Feng

Inserted 3 years ago

“We have seen fundamental changes. The US labels China a strategic adversary, which is the basis of how it sees China’s policies. China has to protect its overseas interests as the economy keeps growing and extending abroad. Sending naval fleets to escort civilian ships, [building up the capacity of] ports for supply – they are normal. If the West can do it, why not us?”

Scmp

Director of American studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

11 Sep 2020 3 3

Gul Berna Ozcan

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Silk Roads evoke a sense of something soft and pleasant, but the rock hard truth is that China is winning. At its core, the Belt and Road is a nicely packaged global hegemonic plan.”

Nationalinterest

Royal Holloway Scholar

11 Jul 2020 (approx) 3 2

Fan Xianrong

Inserted 3 years ago

“Today's event has important symbolic significance for Sino-Ukrainian relations. It means that future cooperation between China and Ukraine within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative will become even closer. Ukraine will show its advantages as a logistics center connecting Europe and Asia, and Sino-Ukrainian economic and trade cooperation will become even faster and more convenient. All this will bring even more benefits to the peoples of the two countries”

Globaltimes

Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine

07 Jul 2020 3 3

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