China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI)
Selected news articles, commentaries, and projects
Sinophobia simmers across Central Asia
Winners and losers along China’s Belt and Road (Gill, Lall & Lebrand, 21 June 2019)
On foot in the Path of the Silk Road (Paul Salopek, NGS Fellow, ESRI Story Map)
Implications for Africa from China’s One Belt One Road Strategy (ACSS, 22 March 2019)
Belt & Road Initiative Explained: How China is looking beyond borders (SCMP, 26 April 2019)
South China Morning Post: The Belt & Road Initiative (multiple articles) (SCMP, updated April 2019)
China’s belt and road extends to Kyrgyzstan, but are new transport links worth all that debt? (Kalinga Seneviratne, 27 April 2019)
Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? (Ben Mauk, 30 January 2019)
Can the Land of a Million Elephants Survive the Belt and Road? (Kearrin Sims and Chrisantha Pinto, 3 January 2019)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative will make or break global climate fight (Beth Walker, 21 Nov 2018)
Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds (Jonathan Watts, 16 Nov 2018)
*** MERICS Belt and Road Tracker, see especially the online interactive map of China’s BRI ***
Global Roadmap | incl. critical video about environmental risks of China’s Belt & Road
Why scientists fear the AIIB (ChinaDialogue, William Laurance, 11 July 2018)
China’s Global Infrastructure Initiative Could Bring Environmental Catastrophe (William F. Laurance, 22 May 2018)
China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world (Bill Laurance, 4 May 2018)
Dr Bruce McKern on the New Silk Road Policy (from U of Technology Sydney)
The New Silk Road Project (a student exploratory journey, June-July 2018)
China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade (Sam Ellis, 6 April 2018)
‘One Belt and One Road’: Connection China and the world (Tian Jinchen, 2016)
Beijing’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ will benefit the world (SCMP, 12 February 2018)
Biodiversity conservation should be a core value of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (Lechner et al., 2018)
China’s new Silk Road conundrum (Hillman, Washington Post, 14 February 2018)
China’s New Silk Road Promises Prosperity Across Eurasia (Fu Ying, 2018)
Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order (Nordin & Weissmann, 12 Feb 2018)
Greening the Belt & Road Initiative (WWF and HSBC, 1 January 2018)
Central Asian ‘characteristics’ on China’s new Silk Road: the role of landscape and the politics of infrastructure (Sternberg et al., 2017)
The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s vision for globalisation, Beijing style (Habib & Faulkner, May 2017)
Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Cai 2017)
China’s March West: Pitfalls and Challenges in Greater Central Asia (Swanstrom & Nyren, 10 January 2017)
How will China’s ambitious new Silk Road impact climate change? (Bello, 2017)
Will China’s new Silk Road be green? (China Dialogue, 2017)
China’s new Eurasian ambitions: the environmental risks of the Silk Road Economic Belt (Tracy et al., 2017)
China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world (Laurance, 2017)
China is quietly reshaping the world (Manuel, 2017)
China’s new Silk Road offers environmental promise (MSU Today, Nichols, 2017?)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Motives, Scope, and Challenges (Djankov & Miner 2016)
The Belt & Road Initiative: A Backgrounder (ISDP, October 2016)
China’s new Silk Road could expand Asia’s deserts (Liu Qin, 2016)
China and Greater Central Asia (Niklas Swanstrom, 2015)
China’s environment in a globalizing world (Liu & Diamond, 2005)
China’s State Council
- From Initiative to Reality: Moments in developing the Belt and Road Initiative (timeline infographic)
- Full text: Action plan on the Belt & Road Initiative (dated 28 March 2015)
- Chronology of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (timeline)
- The Belt and Road Initiative (official video)
Digital Belt and Road (2017)
Steps to the Digital Silk Road (Nature; 30 January 2018)