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Episode 11: The next phase of China's massive Belt and Road Initiative is shifting emphasis after foreign criticism. But how much in the BRI has really changed, and is there any harm in the West embracing China’s vision for an interconnected world?
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8 October 2019
Belt and Road - The Next Phase, with Nadege Rolland and Wang Yiwei
The next phase of China's massive Belt and Road Initiative is shifting emphasis after foreign criticism about debt-trap diplomacy, and concerns about corruption, local impacts and environmental issues. Less talk about grand infrastructure projects like ports and rail; more about ‘soft infrastructure’ like special economic zones and people to people exchanges. The new BRI, China says, will be ‘lean, clean and green'. But how much in the BRI has really changed, and is there any harm in the West embracing China’s vision for an interconnected world?
Episode 11 of the Lowy Institute’s podcast takes a look at the second phase of the BRI, from two perspectives. Chinese foreign policy expert and former Chinese diplomat to the EU, Professor Wang Yiwei outlines China's perspective; and the US-based, French BRI expert Nadège Rolland (at 15:30) takes a more critical view. Rules Based Audio is hosted by Kelsey Munro and powered by the Lowy Institute.
Kelsey Munro , Nadège Rolland
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Nadège Rolland
Nadège Rolland is Senior Fellow, Political and Security Affairs, at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), based in Seattle and Washington, DC.
Kelsey Munro
Kelsey Munro was a Research Fellow and Podcast Director at the Lowy Institute.