The BRI initiative launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013 which aims to connect China with Asia, Europe and Africa via land and sea-based infrastructure development, manifests its economic prowess to propel global development through partnership and connectivity with an explicit aim of shared global prosperity. He said “What we have achieved amply demonstrates that Belt and Road cooperation has both generated new opportunities for the development of all participating countries and opened up new horizons for China’s development and opening-up. Connectivity is vital to advancing Belt and Road cooperation. We need to promote a global partnership of connectivity to achieve common development and prosperity. However the BRI initiative also has its detractors and opponents, like the USA and some of its western allies, who perceive it as a threat to the global economic order which promotes their vested interests.

Source: Pakistan Today May 21, 2019 15:39 UTC