Chinas Belt and Road Initiative

The IISS Strategic Dossier Chinas Belt and Road Initiative provides a geopolitical and geo-economic assessment of President Xi Jinpings flagship foreign-policy initiative. The dossier explores the Belt and Road Initiatives role in Chinas domestic industrial strategy and in the countrys growing influence around the world. It studies how Beijings ambitions, management and financing of the initiative have evolved since its launch in 2013. In addition, the volume reflects on the future of Chinas initiative following the COVID-19 pandemic. The dossier is organised around a region by region assessment of what Beijing has sought to achieve in different countries and how the Belt and Road Initiative has played out over time. The volume examines recipient countries responses to the Belt and Road Initiative and how these have affected it. It also looks at responses from other global and regional powers to Chinas economic activities around the world and offers thoughts on ways the West might better contend with Beijings geo-economic influence.