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JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 535-547Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2022.2122858
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Belt and Road Initiative; Central Asia; China; Chinese investment; International debt
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Despite China's claims, the Belt and Road Initiative is facing increasing negative perceptions globally. In response to criticism, China has promised to adjust the initiative to benefit all participating countries. However, the implementation remains China-centric and lacks a multilateral decision-making process.
Despite China's claims that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an economic co-operation initiative that will foster economic growth and industrial development for recipient countries, to create trade and investment opportunities, and promote peace in the world, the perception of the BRI throughout the world is becoming negative. In response to international criticisms of BRI implementation, in 2019, China's President Xi Jinping pledged to deliver a readjusted BRI 2.0 that would generate benefits for all participating countries, not China alone. Moreover, due to the pressure from recipient countries, Chinese authorities and companies have been applying several readjustment measures in their BRI activities. Central Asia is a priority region for China's foreign policy under the BRI. BRI implementation has helped to expand China's economic interests and influence in Central Asia. However, China's push for the BRI implementation is China-centric, rather than a credible multilateral endeavour as claimed by the Chinese government. As shown in the case of Central Asia, the BRI involves a series of bilateral deals. There is no multilateral decision-making process involved in overseeing BRI or making investment decisions.
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