China’s Belt and Road initiative aims to extend infrastructure and connectivity across Eurasia from the Asia-Pacific to Europe. It includes the overland Silk Road Economic Belt across Central Asia and the Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road, which will span Southeast Asia. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced these initiatives in 2013, they have been actively discussed both within China and abroad. However, so far few infrastructure projects have been enacted and the proposal remains at an early stage.
| China’s Belt and Road initiative aims to extend infrastructure and connectivity across Eurasia from the Asia-Pacific to Europe. It includes the overland Silk Road Economic Belt across Central Asia and the Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road, which will span Southeast Asia. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced these initiatives in 2013, they have been actively discussed both within China and abroad. However, so far few infrastructure projects have been enacted and the proposal remains at an early stage. |
| Carnegie–Tsinghua’s Zhao Kejin has released a Chinese-language book entitled The Belt and Road Initiative: From Vision to Actions, which lays out recommendations for enacting this ambitious initiative. Gong Ting of the China Institute of International Studies will moderate a discussion with Zhao and other U.S. and Chinese experts about the prospects of the Belt and Road to reshape patterns of economic activity and build greater connectivity across Eurasia. |
| Speakers |
| Zhao Kejin is a resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center and deputy director of Tsinghua University’s Center for U.S.-China Relations.
Paul Haenle is the director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy based at Tsinghua University.
Zhao Minghao is a research fellow at the China Center for Contemporary World Studies and a nonresident fellow at Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies. |
| Moderator |
| Gong Ting is an assistant research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. |
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