{"id":271787,"date":"2019-04-29T05:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271787"},"modified":"2019-04-29T06:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:12:44","slug":"hits-and-misses-highlights-of-xi-jinpings-second-belt-and-road-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hits-and-misses-highlights-of-xi-jinpings-second-belt-and-road-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits and misses: Highlights of Xi Jinping&#8217;s second Belt and Road Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted some 5,000 delegates from across the globe at the Belt and Road forum in Beijing last week to discuss his signature infrastructure project, which began in 2013 to rebuild ancient trading routes across Eurasia. This year\u2019s gathering eschewed the pageantry of the inaugural summit in 2017, as Beijing tried to address international criticism by toning down its rhetoric and tightening oversight. <\/p>\n<p>Here are three takeaways from the summit, and how Xi fared in the international spotlight. <\/p>\n<p>A Chastened Xi <\/p>\n<p>Compared with his keynote speech two years ago, Xi was more muted on the Belt and Road initiative\u2019s growing presence in other countries. The president stuck to discussing steps China is taking to clean up the project, and vowed \u201czero tolerance\u201d on corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted some 5,000 delegates from across the globe at the Belt and Road forum in Beijing last week to discuss his signature infrastructure project, which began in 2013 to rebuild ancient trading routes across Eurasia. This year\u2019s gathering eschewed the pageantry of the inaugural summit in 2017, as Beijing tried to address international criticism by toning down its rhetoric and tightening oversight. Here are three takeaways from the summit, and how Xi fared in the international spotlight. A Chastened Xi Compared with his keynote speech two years ago, Xi was more muted on the Belt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}