A decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter

MERICS China Podcast

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013. By now, the BRI is more than just ports and rail lines and its projects covers a variety of sectors like energy, telecommunications, digital, health, education, and culture.
How has the BRI changed in the last decade? What mark has it left abroad and at home? And how do initiatives from the EU and the US fare in comparison? Clark Banach, Futures Fellow at MERICS and Program Director at the Alethia Research Institution, and Jacob Gunter, Lead Analyst at MERICS, join Johannes Heller-John to answer these questions.

Chapters

1. A decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter (00:00:00)

2. The BRI in the last decade (00:01:30)

3. The BRI's impact on host countries (00:11:29)

4. The BRI's impact on China (00:24:27)

5. EU and US responses to the BRI (00:28:40)

6. What is next for the BRI? (00:36:49)

7. Take aways from the BRI summit (00:42:08)